The democrats have had that appetite for years. I have been impressed with trump as president, but I don’t trust him on the 2nd amendment.
The people staunchly pushing for red flag will never vote for Trump no matter what he does. So we’ll see what Trump ends up doing.
IMO Trump needs to take the conversation to another, more serious level. While the media talks about racism (what instigated all the mass killers before we had a ‘racist president’?) there are serious issues to explore. For example, we know the guy in Dayton admitted to a ‘mental illness’. In either case both of the murderers clearly were mentally ill, ungrounded. I would like to know if either of them, or both of them, were taking mood altering drugs, anti-depressants etc. Or, if they were addicted to illicit drugs.
I know this is not a unique observation, but a number of the previous mass murderers were on mood altering prescriptions. Those drugs may work great for 99% of the people but they all say right on their labels that in small numbers of subjects tested they exhibited paranoia, rage, hallucination, ideation etc. Just run the numbers if X million people are on these drugs that means X thousands of people are being driven mad.
Dayton mass shooter supported violent Antifa movement
One America News Network
Published on Aug 7, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY12fyO6uZM
From reports I read the guns used were legally purchased so what do enhanced background checks get us? They would close a loophole in private gun sales perhaps.
"Red flag" laws are being proposed as a grant to states to fund their implementation thus protecting states rights and federalism. We see story after story where law enforcement knew something about a perp before hand. Florida, for example. They need the tools to get to these nut cases.
What Sen Graham is proposing seems reasonable and protects due process.
Because it's implemented at the state-level, we can police our states and hold them accountable. That's how it should be.
President Trump is baiting the Democrats on Second Amendment restrictions. He will never sign any measures that will restrict the right of the people to bear arms. He has nothing to gain by such proposals.
There already ARE background checks when you purchase a firearm from a dealer.
Is he talking about PRIVATE sales? NONE of the shootings in recent years have involved firearms that were purchased from private sellers.
Shooters in recent years passed background checks because they didn’t have any criminal convictions; they were not prohibited persons.
If the president wants to do something, he can ban “gun free” zones.
Also, most of these shooters in the last ten years were in their late teens to early - mid twenties.
Stop giving these young men Ritalin and other psychotropic drugs. It causes some of them to go crazy.
While there at it, stop booting God out of the schools. Nature abhors a vacuum, and what replaces God is dangerous and evil.
It’s good to see Trump is on the ball.
This is pretty much the only way for President Trump to lose in 2020.
How would he explain not covering the GOP congress members who lost last year big enough to lose the House? Next year would be a repeat in the Senate. NO RED FLAG law!!!!!!
LaPierre seems to have gone bad, and the President is getting some not-too-good advice.
Make your voices heard, folks. Red Flag is exactly that, it’s the whole head of the camel, and maybe its front hump. The nose has been there for a long time...
Trump is a great President.
Obama sucks.
Yet Obama was better with the 2a.
Darn!
Wayne will likely agree to whatever Trump asks in an effort to keep his ass out of jail.
The question is, how would background checks stop killer Democrats?
As I posted yesterday, red flag laws:
Catch 22:
You can’t own a gun if you’re crazy.
You must be crazy if you own a gun.
That’s how it will go, eventually. Trump better not support red flag laws. He already shot himself in the foot with the bump stock ban.
Political Cover is NOT the kind of cover you dirt-rats are going to need.
Fixing the NICS system such that the military and all states’ databases are included is fine. The NRA has endorsed that for years.
Universal background checks and expanded red flag laws are suicide for Republicans. A lot of us will sit out the next election if the Republicans cave on these two issues.