Could This Be The Biggest Blunder In NRA History?

Is Wayne LaPierre Your Enemy?

WASHINGTON — Efforts on Capitol Hill to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases have brought together some unlikely bedfellows in the wake of the Virginia Tech campus shootings earlier this month.

Wayne LaPierre, president of the National Rifle Association, said his group is working closely with Democrats on new legislation that would make it easier for states to update and transmit records to the FBI involving residents who have been deemed mentally unfit to own a gun.

"If someone is adjudicated by a court of law to be mentally defective, a danger to themselves or others, are suicidal, they should be prohibited from owning a firearm and the record of that adjudication should be included in the background check," LaPierre told FOXNews.com. "It has been the NRA's position for over two decades," he said.

... But what happens when the APA (American Psychological Association) and similar groups enhance and grow their political agenda as some have suggested they already have done? What happens when someone can be declared mentally ill, or not, for political reasons?

This is a slippery slope we don't need to go down. The problem in the Cho/VT shooting was the incompetence and political correctness of the school administration and law enforcement. They had too many warnings and ignored them all! The needed laws are already in place. You wish to produce yet another national system instead of allowing each state to proceed on its own. Mr. LaPierre, you may have just stepped into something very smelly! I would suggest all NRA members to go here.

NRA Membership is not reacting well and NRA has issued this statement.