Schumer response to my gun control letter

dude just move out of that state, im feeling like I want to move cause im in a state touching your shithole state...

Thank you for contacting me regarding gun control legislation. Like you, I believe the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Constitution’s Second Amendment. The recent Supreme Court decisions reinforced this fact, but I believed that this was the case prior to those decisions.

While I certainly respect the Second Amendment to the Constitution, I believe that we have a collective interest in keeping guns out of the hands of those who want to harm the innocent. I believe it is possible to strike a reasonable balance. I have long advocated for faster and more accurate background checks so legal purchasers can receive their guns quickly while ensuring criminals do not illegally purchase and possess firearms. In 2011, I proposed S. 436, the Fix Gun Checks Act to provide more funding to states to compile required background data for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). This legislation builds on the National Rifle Association-supported NICS Improvements Amendment Act, passed by Congress in 2007. Ensuring that this information is comprehensive and up to date will protect law enforcement from criminals with illegally obtained weapons while speeding up the process for purchasing legal firearms.

You may also be pleased to know that I have successfully fought to create new opportunities for law abiding citizens to exercise their right to use guns. For example, in the 109th Congress, I secured federal money to expand the scarce hunting grounds in New York State by creating a financial incentive for private landowners to allow hunters access to their property.

Thank you for contacting me about this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future if I can ever be of assistance to you on this, or any other matter.


Sincerely,

Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator

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"I believe it is possible to strike a reasonable balance".

Will someone please tell these assholes that the 2 nd amendment has not a damn thing to do with hunting Bambi .... If anything - it means we should hunt ol' Chuckie and his gang of corrupt soulless bitches.

So glad I moved the hell out of that state.

I agree, I will move out as soon as I can.

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They are going to use mental health as a way to take away your second ammendment rights.

at least 50% of the people could be considered mentally ill. If you have tried prozac once you may be considered mentally ill.

What about the returning vets with post traumatic stress disorder?

Mental health is a big issue folks.

Psychopaths can't even get diagnosed properly. Get on it.

"Is Criminal Behavior a Central Component of Psychopathy?
Conceptual Directions for Resolving the Debate"

Jennifer L. Skeem
University of California, Irvine

David J. Cooke
Glasgow Caledonian University

"The development of the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R; R. D. Hare, 2003) has fueled intense
clinical interest in the construct of psychopathy. Unfortunately, a side effect of this interest has been
conceptual confusion and, in particular, the conflating of measures with constructs. Indeed, the field is
in danger of equating the PCL–R with the theoretical construct of psychopathy. A key point in the debate
is whether criminal behavior is a central component, or mere downstream correlate, of psychopathy. In
this article, the authors present conceptual directions for resolving this debate. First, factor analysis of
PCL–R items in a theoretical vacuum cannot reveal the essence of psychopathy. Second, a myth about
the PCL–R and its relation to violence must be examined to avoid the view that psychopathy is merely
a violent variant of antisocial personality disorder. Third, a formal, iterative process between theory
development and empirical validation must be adopted. Fundamentally, constructs and measures must be
recognized as separate entities, and neither reified. Applying such principles to the current state of the
field, the authors believe the evidence favors viewing criminal behavior as a correlate, not a component,
of psychopathy."

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We would welcome you in Pennsylvania. We still have some freedom here. At least for a while yet.