European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 13 in the states House approves tighter gun Law Bill funds better database to identify those who should not own firearms los Angeles times Washington the House on wednesday passed what could become the first significant gun legislation in a directing states to streamline the system for keeping track of mental patients and others barred from buying firearms and providing million a year for the Central database and Grants to states to contribute to the which was passed by was the product of rare cooperation Between gun con tool advocates and the National Rifle it is intended to address problems highlighted by the mass shooting at Virginia tech by a student with a history of men Tal health the measure is expected to pass the Carolyn a sponsor of the said the current state records system was so flawed that millions of criminal records Are not accessible by the National database that is supposed to notify gun dealers of disqualified i came to Congress in in the Wake of my own personal trag to help prevent gun said referring to her husbands shooting death at the hands of a gunman on a Long is land in a spokesman for the Era insisted that the Bill did not amount to gun control and said the group endorsed it because it would improve enforcement of current gun rather than adding the last major changes to gun Laws came in 1994 the last until that both houses of con Gress were under democratic control when a five Day waiting period and background checks on potential handgun purchasers were imposed and the Sale of some As Sault weapons was White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that the president very much supported the goals of the House but that his aides had some concerns about its million annual Price Charles visitors Stop by a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Virginia tech shooting spree wednesday on the schools report says info Swap on mentally ill not easy the Washington Post abilities to identify potentially dangerous mentally ill people Are crippled across the nation by the same kinds of conflicts in privacy Laws that prevented state officials from being Able to intervene before Seung Hui Cho went on his rampage at Virginia according to a Federal report commissioned after the Blacks Burg shootings that was presented to president Bush because school doctors and police officials rarely share information about Stu dents and others who have mental Trou bled people dont get the counselling they and authorities Are often unable to prevent them from buying the report chos relatives turned Over his men Tal health records to a gubernatorial panel investigating the the panels chairman said Federal privacy Laws governing health and student information had prevented the panel from reviewing the panel chairman Gerald Massengill had said he would go to court if necessary to obtain this is not All the records that we will Massengill but this is certainly some that we Felt a Strong need to take a look University spokesman Larry Hincker said the family turned Over chos mental health records on Massengill said they were delivered to the panel on but that he had not yet examined the panels report found that teachers and school administrators fear they May be breaking the Law if they share student in Many the report officials have More Power to share in formation than they one of the most important things we found is that Many of the obstacles Are Leavitt the associated press contributed to this cops criticized in woman bleeding death the associated press los Angeles a woman who Lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled intercity Hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to Contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another Facil newly released tapes of the emergency Calls Edith Isabel died of a perforated Bowel on May 9 at Martin Luther King her death was ruled accidental by the los Angeles county coroners relatives said Rodriguez was bleeding from the Mouth and writhing in pain for 45 minutes while she was at a Hospital waiting experts have said she could have sur Vived had she been treated Early county and state authorities Are now investigating Rodriguezs relatives re ported she died As police were Wheeling her out of the Hospital after the officers they had asked to help Rodriguez arrested her in Stead on a parole sheriffs depart ment spokesman Duane Allen said wednes Day that the investigation is in the recordings of two 911 Calls that callers pleaded for help for Rodriguez but were referred to Hospital staff the incident was the latest High profile lapse at formerly known As the los Angeles county Board of supervisors is investigating claims of re cent patient care including Rodriguezs Federal inspectors last week said Emer gency room patients were in immediate jeopardy of harm or and Kingham Bor was Given 23 Days to shape up or risk los ing Federal 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