Google has page after page of blogs published by people calling me crazy and violent. I don't have the money to have those blogs removed from the Internet.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that people who post their violent intentions at social media aren't apprehended before they hurt other people. The Internet is full of violence. Literally thousands of people have written threatening messages about me to the hateblogs published about me, for years.
I'm not saying that background checks never contribute to safety. I think that educating people about responsible gun ownership (in the absence of repealing the Second Amendment) and doing everything that can be done to confront the message that violence is glamorous will also contribute to safety.
I also hope that today's school shooting won't be turned into more verbal attacks on "the mentally ill."
This is some of what people say about me online:
Almost a year ago, with my Internet search results like this, I passed a background check to work at a private, corporate cafeteria at the World Trade Center in Boston. I was given a badge, without which I couldn't access the building. Nobody, not even visitors, could walk past the front doors for that business without a badge and without also walking past the security desk.
This past summer, I worked for a catering support business. I was grateful to the people who hired me, but it also concerned me that there were no background checks, particularly because we did a lot of support work for a kosher caterer. I routinely worked in synagogues for weddings, even synagogues that had locked front doors and which buzzed people into the buildings.
