Editorial on Gun Control (Navy Yard Shooting)

http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-if-the-mentally-ill-can-buy-guns-the-nation/article_22e869b0-b7d7-5ef4-a69c-52f213c95ff0.html

If the man that did the killing was really mentally ill he wouldn't have been legally able to obtain a gun under national background checks. The background checks are in place for just that reason and they work if properly performed. This article also says that the phrase "The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" doesn't apply to the Navy yard incident. If there would have been one person that wanted to take out the gunman in the shipyard they easily could have. Simply put all that a law completely banning guns would do is take the guns out of the hands of the good, honest American's hands and leaving them in the hands of criminals that obtain their guns illegally anyway.