Track bullets, fingerprints and DNA

Instead of gun issues dividing America, how about we strengthen gun laws and keep better track of the bullets involved in crimes? Law and Order must be maintained in any good society yet in only the first six months into 2017, there were more than 8,000 shooting deaths and 15,000 gun related injuries and that doesn’t even represent the headlining famous mass shootings. How DO we stop gun violence now? Protesting doesn’t do much but possibly get you arrested to especially when we have a President who just wants to hand out more guns to the “good guys.” Well there was a shooting recently in a Waffle House restaurants where a crazy person with a weapon killed multiple people. Our laws let his family get back his weapons. Should that be allowed given that sick people have access to the good people’s guns?

In Chicago the street violence with guns is so bad that Trump has sent federal officers there. In Ohio they have drug enforcement officers that encounter illegal guns all the time. Officers haven’t seen a god old fashioned fist fight in years. Everyone seems to have a gun to pull out when they get angry. People can recover from a fist fight but rarely from a well- placed gun wound. We need national laws to keep tract of the bullets. In Cincinnati they have The National Integrated Ballistics Information Network. Yes a data base that keeps track of all weaponry on the streets. The information collected can immediately tell law enforcers all the suspects that were involved in the crime scenes, and a list of bullet casings that identifies the guns used.

It is important information to collect because every gun leaves unique identifying marks on a casing. It is like a fingerprint on a gun that can become key evidence in getting guns out of the hands of the bad guys. It can link multiple casings to different crimes. It can lead then to the criminal who still has the lethal weapon in their possession. Now police should be collecting and can collect the shell casing left behind after a crime with a gun that has been committed and can lead to the bad guy as evidence.  Most likely a criminal that has gotten away with a crime using a gun will undoubtedly   use that same gun in the next crime. Dumb Donald, let’s find the guns in the hands of the bad guys before we put even more guns out there!

The computers can create 3D images of the bullet casings. That will lead to the gun that can lead to crime scenes and then to the bad guy. Now police departments from other areas go to Cincinnati to learn about the process. This program needs to be federally funded and implemented to all the states. There are less than 108 NIBIN bullet tracking data base machines in America. Some states don’t even have the system according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The machines costs as much as a quarter of a million dollars and using them correctly involves training to create trash bullet casings into key evidence.  

The Federal government could make this a national cause and the cost is not that much as compared to other spending. America has done it before with national fingerprinting and DNA data bases but we are stuck with an inexperienced, stupid President who would rather go on campaign rallies and be the Hero of the Stupid telling everyone to get more weapons instead of consulting with professional lawmakers on a better solution to curb crime and get the weapons out of the hands of the sick criminals. Ballistic evidence should be added to fingerprint and DNA tracking of the lawless.