15 students have been injured in a stabbing spree at Lone Star College in Texas. This is exactly why we need universal background checks and registration of firearms.
Think I’m being facetious? Nope. Adam Lanza resorted to theft and murder to get his guns. Such a system would not have deterred him. James Holmes was able to pass the NICS check because he hadn’t done anything to get himself on the radar. Jared Loughner also passed because the Pima County Sheriff’s Office had declined to charge him for the death threats he’d made.
Universal background checks aren’t going to stop mass shootings any more than they are bombings or stabbings. Perhaps a ban on knives might stem the tide?