{"id":10314,"date":"2015-07-26T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2015-07-26T22:38:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T22:38:05","slug":"how-did-this-guy-purchase-a-gun-legally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10314","title":{"rendered":"How did this guy purchase a gun … legally?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Someone will have to explain this one to me.<\/p>\n

John Houser was known to behave erratically. He had a rap sheet as long as his arm, maybe both arms.<\/p>\n

And yet he was able to purchase a handgun — legally, it turns out — in Alabama.<\/p>\n

He then\u00a0took the gun into a movie theater in Lafayette, La., cases the crowd watching the film and then opens fire.<\/p>\n

Houser killed two people and injured several more — before killing himself with the gun he used to commit the horrible crime.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/24\/us\/louisiana-theater-shooter\/<\/p>\n

How in the name of all that is holy did this guy purchase a gun legally?<\/p>\n

We hear, of course, that existing gun laws are sufficient. Obviously, and quite tragically, John Houser has demonstrated that they are woefully insufficient<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Let me think: A background check might have determined this guy was unfit to own a handgun. A three- to five-day delay in the purchase to give local authorities time to check him out might have worked. He could have been denied permission to buy the gun.<\/p>\n

Would that have prevented him from obtaining a firearm illegally, from stealing it from someone? Probably not.<\/p>\n

But he bought the thing legally<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m ready for the explanation — and the justification — for why this is OK?<\/p>\n\n

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Someone will have to explain this one to me. John Houser was known to behave erratically. He had a rap sheet as long as his arm, maybe both arms. And yet he was able to purchase a handgun — legally, it turns out — in Alabama. He then\u00a0took the gun into a movie theater in … Continue reading How did this guy purchase a gun … legally?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2025,2037,2536,2714],"class_list":["post-10314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-violence","tag-john-houser","tag-lafayette-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}