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SusanMc - I'm with you
If the federal government is going to collect information, why not use it to good effect? It wasn't on record that Cho was using any prescription drugs, but it was known that Cho had some serious problems, and those problems were communicated to campus police and university officials. He was briefly committed to a mental health facility.
Yet Cho was able to buy his firearms legally, breezing through the background check with no alarms raised.
If one claims that they don't want government collecting information like this, then because of the gun laws as they exist in this country, one has to accept that these incidents are highly likely, if not inevitable.