tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post8887247935305541382..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: THE ROOF BACKGROUND CHECK: GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUTSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-30419395900553690872015-07-11T19:13:55.676-04:002015-07-11T19:13:55.676-04:00• A rusted VIN on a forty year old submerged car c...• A rusted VIN on a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/27/identified-three-oklahoma-teens-missing-40-years-found-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake/" rel="nofollow">forty year old submerged car</a> can be traced to its missing owner.<br /><br />• A friend of mine was pulled over in Texas and arrested on a 20+ year old speeding ticket from college in the 70s.<br /><br />• Just typing the right words in a comment section can light up pleasure zones in Utah, sending guys in sun glasses to your door, with the authority to take you God knows where and feed you lunch through your ass.<br /><br />• But law enforcement could not flag this guy in a gun background check.<br /><br />The Patriot Act shit-canned the wrong amendment.<br /><br />Because you're right. Americans choose to live like this.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-76088519226097799282015-07-11T16:00:53.077-04:002015-07-11T16:00:53.077-04:00It's even worse than Steve describes and Victo...It's even worse than Steve describes and Victor laments.<br /><br />The effective advent in the computerization of law enforcement records was in the mid-1980s. By the then of the 1980s in most instances, certainly by the time that Bill Clinton was sworn in as POTUS for his first term, all western European democracies were not just committed to but directly participating in the International Justice Information System. In Australia, it was AJIS, in Canada CJIS, and there were and since then have continued to be in existence similar comprehensive justice information data sharing systems for Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, on and on thru most of the Interpol network and all participants in the comprehensive communications surveillance program coordinated under the US NSA ... except for one country: the U.S.<br /><br />Law enforcement or "justice" information sharing systems in the U.S., alone among all nations in the developed western world (plus related partners such as Japan and South Korea), has some effective 'firewalls' up against the sharing of certain categories of information involving firearms and related crimes, including crimes involving violence and particularly involving the use of firearms in what we in the U.S. call 'felonies' but elsewhere are called, among other tersm, 'serious crimes' or 'indictable offences'. <br /><br />Every JIS-participant country OTHER than the U.S. has some sort of civilian firearms registration system, invariably tied to licensing and connected to mandatory reporting and mandatory seizures or restrictions from using or even possession firearms, not just following final court findings of guilt but even from the outset imposed on individuals charged with certain criminal offense as a function of their bail release conditions.<br /><br />So, think about this: If Roof had traveled up to Canada and tried to legally purchase a firearm there, his attempt fail due to lack fo citizenship and residency. If Roof were to have emigrated to Canada and then and there applied for a license to buy and possess a firearm, there would have been a record of that application and any success or failure he encountered AND any official suspension of that permission whether by a court in the context of his release from custody pending trial or out of the administrative process that follows conviction to ensure the seizing of firearms from convicts ... AND THE FBI WOULD HAVE HAD ALL THOSE RECORDS, Canadian records, or Aussie records, or Brit records, or German records, whatever, due to the JIS data sharing program.<br /><br />But in the U.S., inside the very country it's designed and constituted to operate in, the FBI cannot ever be sure that such records even exist, leave aside accessible, to say nothing at all abut who, if anyone, is responsible for assembling them.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-61782416919070838062015-07-11T12:17:35.994-04:002015-07-11T12:17:35.994-04:00This just makes this horrendously unpardonable cri...This just makes this horrendously unpardonable crime even worse, if that's possible.<br /><br />But you're right, Steve - this is the system too many of us want.<br />And the rest of us sit silently by while people kill one another at a rate that shocks the rest of the world.<br /><br />We never outgrew "The Wild West" mentality.<br />"Have gun, will travel."<br />And leave dead people in our wake...Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com