President Trump just made it clearer than crystal on a cold winter night.
Minutes ago, he tweeted out his own plan for gun reform, which includes raising the legal age to purchase certain firearms and banning the sale of so-called “bump stocks.” President Trump is under enormous pressure from the left and the media to do something on guns. He’s trying to balance our Second Amendment rights with the demand to curtail gun violence. Here’s what he said:
I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and end sale of Bump Stocks! Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue – I hope!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018
This echoes much of what President Trump has said before on gun control. Earlier this week, the President ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into how best to ban the sale of bump stocks, an accessory that can increase the velocity at which a semi-automatic gun can fire. Trump is also repeating his call to increase the amount of armed and trained teachers in classrooms:
….History shows that a school shooting lasts, on average, 3 minutes. It takes police & first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive. GREAT DETERRENT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018
Trump’s proposals will, of course, hardly satiate liberals who demand nothing less than the full banishment of semi-automatic guns – a draconian measure that would assuredly be shot down in any court of law. Take a look at the crowd’s reaction from yesterday’s student town hall hosted by CNN where Senator Marco Rubio made a remark about banning semi-automatic firearms.
Rubio says: “you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic rifle” as if it were a bad thing….
Instead, crowd goes wild. Oops. pic.twitter.com/cWi6uzK0gW
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) February 22, 2018
Clearly, compromise is not on the liberal agenda when it comes to guns. It looks like President Trump and Republicans will have to go it alone when it comes to gun reform.
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