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Posted on 02/19/2018 7:00:18 AM PST by Simon Green
The White House signaled that President Trump would be open to bolstering gun background checks in the wake of a mass shooting at a Florida high school last week that rekindled the national debate about gun control.
The president spoke on Friday to Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn about a bill the Texas Republican introduced with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) that would “improve federal compliance with criminal background check legislation,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement on Monday.
“While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system,” she said.
Cornyn and Murphy were among a bipartisan group of lawmakers who supported the background check bill introduced in November after a church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that left 26 people dead.
It’s the first indication that Trump would back a measure to bolster background checks.
In the days after 17 people were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., last Wednesday, Trump blamed mental illness and called on “neighbors and classmates” to report erratic behavior.
The White House also said Trump will host a “listening session” this Wednesday with high school students and teachers, but didn’t confirm that Parkland teens will be part of the discussion.
A group of students who survived the rampage also announced that they will hold a “March for Our Lives” rally in Washington, D.C., on March 24 to highlight the need for gun control.
Trump spent the three-day Presidents Day weekend at his resort in Mar-a-Lago, which is about 40 miles north of the school shooting site, and surveyed members about gun control laws, The Washington Post reported.
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Nope, the 39 times simply exist in the database....no charges, no convictions. Some indications suggest that the social office was called by the cops to come out (on some occasions)....to talk the kid into cooperating and calming down. Kid was a massive gamer and uncontrollable behavior.
Most folks, after ten cop visits....would have told the cop to take the kid to the social office, and leave him there. This woman just kept putting up with his behavior.
What bothers me is that in the whole state of Florida....there are probably a hundred kids like this and just ticking time-bombs. All of them need to be picked up and dumped on Pacific island for three years to chill out.
I dunno, maybe a checkbox for psychotropic meds. Worth discussing that, methinks. Also reports from doctors who prescribe, and an admonition from the doctor to the patient, “if I prescribe this med, one of the side effects is possible suicidal or homicidal thoughts, so I am obliged to report this prescription to NICS. If you take this prescription, you agree to relinquish your right to keep and bear arms.”
My best idea is to imprison those who post serious threats on our public media.
Fake News CNN is talking about tougher gun laws.
No one is talking about locking mentally unstable people up.
Shout it from the rooftops!
And no gun-seller should be required to sell a gun to anyone they have reservations about.
I understand that it's a slippery slope, but there are two options: measures which infringe on Unalienable Rights, and measures which don't infringe on them. As gun owner's, we're duty bound to seek out the latter, or else the propagandists will ensure the former.
Having said that, it's also incumbent on gun rights advocates to staunchly and articulately defend those rights, and to repudiate the emotional, "feel good" measures which the Leftists propose—measures which both infringe on Unalienable Rights and are also ineffective.
Exactly. There must be penalties for that. Harsh ones.
Judy’s legit.
We have open carry here.
Crime rate is pretty low.
Go figure...
Turned in to the FBI at least twice, 39 police visits, expelled from school due to threats. Let’s see ... we need more gun control laws and a monument to the stupidity of of the Left, and raise taxes to pay for the monument, of course.
The problem is at the "other end" - reporting in by the various courts and mental health care providers is a cumbersome process. If the disqualifying info isn't there in the system to find, it doesn't matter how "tough" the background check is.
And while I'm not really into video games, I don't agree with my fellow people of the gun who glibly offer them up to be banned. Exact same mindset as people who are not into guns casually wanting them banned.
Given that most yute's criminal records, no matter how violent, are expunged at 18, there is some merit to this.
Anyone who can't keep their nose clean for a few years after turning 18 might be problematic.
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Look for the “mental health” angle to be once again shoveled under the rug.
Agreed.
Not criticizing you, but amening you.
ANY gun ban, ANY infringement of the right to keep and bear arms signed by Trump, and I will STAY HOME from the 2020 elections. Absolutely serious. If Trump is willing to throw his NRA supporters to the Demonrat wolves, then he will get the same treatment.
The tragedy is the killer is also a victim.
If someone had locked up in the first place, 17 kids would be alive today.
But liberals don’t like to hold mentally ill people where they can be treated without endangering others or themselves.
Some people are simply not capable of functioning in society. Its not humane or compassionate to leave such ticking human time bombs to their own devices.
As long as we refuse to face up to it, more mass murders are inevitable in the future. Guns are not the problem. Mentally ill people are the problem.
25? Good lord. We have people joining the military at 17 and 18. That is absolutely not the answer.
Really? Silly me, assuming that they had.
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