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News Analysis: After Florida shooting, Trump offers comfort - to gun owners
NBC "News" ^ | February 15, 2018 | by JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 02/15/2018 2:27:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The day after a shooter killed 17 people at a Florida high school, President Donald Trump offered comforting words - for gun owners.

"We are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health," Trump said in brief remarks at the White House. "It is not enough to simply take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference. We must actually make that difference."

Translation: Your guns are safe.

With Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress - and Democrats holding enough seats to sustain a filibuster in the Senate - it seems highly unlikely that Congress will send Trump any major change to gun laws anytime soon.

On Thursday, gun-rights advocates praised Trump's expressions of sympathy for the victims, their families and survivors of the shooting. They were reassured by what he's said in the past - and what he didn't say at the White House - about his universe of solutions for preventing the next deadly attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; banglist; bias; domesticenemies; fakenews; journalism; media; nbc
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Jonathan Allen is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. He is currently a national political correspondent for NBC News and a regular guest on cable programs such as "Screwball with Chris Matthews" and "The Last Turd with Lawrence O’Donnell".

1 posted on 02/15/2018 2:27:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a loser


2 posted on 02/15/2018 2:30:58 PM PST by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yup, he’s a loser.


3 posted on 02/15/2018 2:33:44 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: albie

Why didn’t he talk up all the “gun-control” measures that were passed when Democrats had the presidency and both houses of congress, hmmm?


4 posted on 02/15/2018 2:34:35 PM PST by daler
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” “It is not enough to simply take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference. We must actually make that difference.”

Translation: Your guns are safe. “

So he admits gun control does nothing to stop the killings.


5 posted on 02/15/2018 2:38:57 PM PST by dgbrown
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

instead of giving away Obamaphones, the govt should give away good quality firearms to every American to defend him/herself

with a return of firearms safety training and shooting sports in schools


6 posted on 02/15/2018 2:40:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You know what, LOSER, gun owners DO need comfort...because every single time some nut goes and murders a bunch of innocents, Leftist hacks drooling over the prospect of a disarmed public come crawling out from under your rocks, and demand that the full force of the government be used to take away their legally-acquired property, property that was never utilized to harm another person, and to also simultaneously strip them of the right to protect themselves.

What President Trump has done is to assure the 100 million or so innocent people who own guns in this country, and who did not murder 17 people in a Florida high school yesterday, that their property and security are not up for the political auction of the day.

So, LOSER, you can GFY.

Hearty thanks to President Donald J. Trump!!!!


7 posted on 02/15/2018 2:47:18 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear Mr. Allen:

Just heard Geraldo Rivera speak approvingly of President Trumps message about the shooting.

Think about that. Geraldo.

Where does that place you Mc Allen?

Scum bag.

Sincerely,
KC Burke
Arizona, USA


8 posted on 02/15/2018 2:51:07 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As he should. Not the tool dumbass. I really don’t like these fidiots.


9 posted on 02/15/2018 2:57:44 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I bet this POS is perfectly fine with abortion that has killed millions of innocent babies. Funny how liberals don’t want to ban THAT, but are fine with disarming those that want to protect themselves.

They can all GF themselves!


10 posted on 02/15/2018 3:00:58 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fat Pig Liberal “interprets” what DJ Trump really meant to say but didn’t actually say.

This is the America these ass clowns want, “let me tell you what to hear, believe, and say”! Kim Jon Dung would be right at home here with this guy in a couple of years.


11 posted on 02/15/2018 3:04:10 PM PST by dirtymac
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They want “gun control” but they never say what “gun control” is and how it will stop shootings.


12 posted on 02/15/2018 3:08:18 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The FBI knew about the shooter and did nothing to prevent it from happening. Intervention does not fit with the narrative. 17 people dead, in their warped mind, does advance the agenda

They can impose marshal law or have a revolution when hundreds of millions of guns, with ammunition, are out and about.


13 posted on 02/15/2018 3:08:25 PM PST by dirtymac
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Gun owners can also take some comfort from the FBI's inability to identify the person who identified himself as "Nikolas Cruz" and said he wanted to become a "professional school shooter".

If this is the same FBI that would be charged with enforcing some new gun control laws, then gun owners are safe. The FBI has become a cruel joke.

14 posted on 02/15/2018 3:09:16 PM PST by William Tell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Not just a homo lookin' snowflake,
and not just another presstitute spewing disrespect for the wisdom in the Constitution,
but a FAT f**k on top of all that.

spit

15 posted on 02/15/2018 3:09:16 PM PST by tomkat
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To: dirtymac

correction CAN’T . . .


16 posted on 02/15/2018 3:09:22 PM PST by dirtymac
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To: SaxxonWoods

We need nut control, not more gun control.


17 posted on 02/15/2018 3:09:30 PM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
News Analysis: After Florida shooting, Trump offers comfort - to gun owners

And we've got his back.

18 posted on 02/15/2018 3:11:05 PM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Boy, talk about putting words in someone’s mouth, this guy has quite an imagination...


19 posted on 02/15/2018 3:11:14 PM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“News analysis” is just libturd-speak for “we will spout whatever leftist opinions we like and pretend we are doing news.” This goes back at least a few decades, as Leftards increasingly took over the MSM.


20 posted on 02/15/2018 3:12:47 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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