The recent shooting in Sutherland Springs strikes up even more debate than before about gun laws.
Devin Patrick Kelly, the Sutherland Springs shooter was said to have bought his gun at one of the Academy Sports and Outdoors stores in San Antonio, Texas.
This wouldn't have been a problem, if he hadn't been discharged from the Air Force on bad conduct.
Kelly was court-martialed in 2012 for assault on his spouse and child, who he beat bad enough to fracture his skull. He was then discharged on bad conduct, according to Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek.
Following his discharge, he was in jail for almost a year. This disables you from being able to purchase a gun.
When dishonorably discharged from the military, you are not allowed to buy…show more content… Although Kelly was discharged from the air force, he was not dishonorably discharged. He was just discharged for bad conduct which falls short of the mark and still allows him to buy a firearm. However, he still should not have been allowed to buy the weapon after being in jail.
When purchasing the gun at Academy, he listed his address as one in Colorado Springs, Colorado. While he was in Colorado he had multiple accounts of animal abuse. There may have been a mistake in the system that allowed him to slip through the cracks unnoticed. This mistake, however, was a fatal one.
Instead of adding more rules or control to gun laws, why don't we become more strict on enforcing the ones we have?
In a 2013 record from the U.S. Department of Justice, the rate of deaths by firearm has fallen drastically since 1993-2011. Obviously our gun laws worked at one point if the number dropped from 1,548,000 deaths in 1993 to 478,400 in 2011.
Maybe instead of focusing on getting rid of all guns we should reinforce our laws to make them harder to access and go deeper into background checks.
If we would've gotten rid of all guns by now the Sutherland Springs shooting would have been worse. A witness across the street ran to the church with his gun and stopped Kelly by shooting him in the leg and chest, causing him to
