POLICE SEIZED MENTALLY ILL WAFFLE HOUSE SHOOTER'S AR-15 AND GAVE IT TO HIS FATHER

THEN THE SHOOTER'S FATHER GAVE THAT AND OTHER GUN(S) BACK TO WAFFLE HOUSE SHOOTER TRAVIS REINKING

Reports are that the father "could" face charges

I'm not sure why the police wouldn't face charges. They transferred the assault rifle of choice for white boy mass shooters from one relative to another -- and supposedly didn't believe Travis Reinking wouldn't get those guns back the same day, the next day, or the following week. 

Was this decision on the police's part supposed represent outrageous incompetence?

Or does the police's decision to transfer the guns to Reinking's father reflect the fact that police are only following the letter of the law so as to avoid truly removing guns from incompetent gun owners?

Or did law makers write yet another weak gun control so as to avoid the permanent removal and destruction of the guns in order to accommodate the National Rifle Association?

As far as I'm concerned it is the police that are to blame for this -- until they explain they explain their inexplicable actions. The father returning the guns to his son was a completely foreseeable event in today's political atmosphere.


Sub-headline from NY MAG

Trump Blocked a Rule That Made It Harder for the Mentally Ill to Obtain Guns

"In December 2016, the Obama administration finalized a rule that would have added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and deemed unfit to handle their own finances to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The rule was written in response to the massacre in Newtown and the Obama administration predicted it would have added 75,000 people to the national database.

Both the NRA and the ACLU said the law violated the Second Amendment rights of the mentally ill without due process, and Congress quickly voted to overturn the rule, mostly on party lines. 

President Trump signed the measure into law in February 2017, with no public signing ceremony. Since then Trump has continued to say mass shootings are a “mental-health problem,” not a gun problem..."

How Republicans Have Been Making Gun Laws Worse Under Trump

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/every-attempt-to-change-gun-laws-under-trump.html

Trump's one piece of gun-related legislation undid restrictions aimed at mental illness

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/trump-gun-legislation-mental-health/index.html 

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