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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(A certain former occupier of the White House, who is and was doubtless a flourishing garden of STDs was all for medical privacy. I don't know why. He looks like he's lost a LOT of weight, I want to know what diet he's on...)
Didn’t read the whole thing, did you? Or, is it reading comprehension you have a problem with?
Don't you hoplophobes get it? We are NOT going to put up with any more infringements! It's not the gun, it's this GODLESS SOCIETY!
You people like mass death? No? Then you better not pile on any more infringements on the people who DIDN'T DO IT!
Wasn’t it the Air Force who dropped the ball regarding the Texas church shooter? Something about the little psycho beating up his wife, and the Air Force authorities not putting the future shooter in a domestic violence database?
When you have a background check of any sort, then you are requiring that the federal government grant you permission to purchase a firearm.
If you have to ask permission to do something it is no longer a right; it is a privilege, and privileges can be revoked at any time for any reason or no reason at all. You don't have to ask permission to exercise a right.
The framers of the constitution didn't say the right to keep and bear arms only applies to those whom the government approves of. they said the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Nick Cruz was only 19 and law enforcement had blown-off multiple tips. It is doubtful that an enhanced background check would have turned-up anything.
Drug use? I don't recall ever providing a urine sample for any of the 4473s I filled out.
Who gets to decide who is mentally unstable? The left and more than a few republican squishes declare that Trump and those that support him are mentally unstable. Plenty on the left argue that military veterans and gun owners in general are unstable.
Beware the slippery slope.
This did not stop him from doing what he did.
We need to be focusing on the mental health side of this argument. The dude was taking meds with known side effects.
The system had multiple warnings and was ignored.
I’m really sick and tired of hearing about government doing background checks on us. Who the hell do these peolple think they are. We need to do background checks on all of them and I can tell you most would fail.
They knew he had mental problems but failed to get him the help he needed.
That’s why the focus on guns is both a cop-out and a diversion.
Just as well nothing will be done because liberalism is a mental illness.
What will probably happen is a purchase application thru local police with a 30 day investigation to buy a firearm. A lot of power in the local deputy's hands, don't mouth off getting a ticket in that scenario.
You must live in an unfree state. An AR-15 (what I assume you are referring to) is CASH AND CARRY here in Alabama after filling out the 4473 form. And the form is an infringement.
The probably ISN'T THE GUN. It's this sick, GODLESS society and the media and the FBI enablers who WANT mass murders.
That’s good work on the chart.
Agree....if you change the age to own a gun....the age to vote goes with it.
The right to vote is in many ways more dangerous than owning a gun.
It violates school and district policy.
I wonder why?
Mods need to get busy. There are trolls in here.
You've already bought into the LSM narrative....
What is an assault rife??
You won't get eviscerated from me and I keep several firearms, including so-called "assault weapons" in my home.
Eventually the public is going to demand that there be a mechanism in place to keep mentally/emotionally unstable people from buying firearms other than waiting until they're either a felon or adjudicated mentally ill.
It's going to happen. Even gun-owners are growing tired of life's losers buying a $500 AR-15 and leaving a trail of dead schoolchildren.
Are you the actual transferee/buyer of the firearm(s)?s
Are you under indictment or information in any court for a felony, or any other crime, for which the judge could imprison you for more than one year?
Have you ever been convicted in any court of a felony, or any other crime, for which the judge could have you imprisoned for more than one year, even if you received a shorter sentence including probation?
Are you a fugitive from justice?
Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?
Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective (which includes a determination by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority that you are a danger to yourself or to others or are incompetent to manage your own affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution?
Have you been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions?
Are you subject to a court order restraining you from harassing, stalking, or threatening your child or an intimate partner or child of such partner?
Have you ever been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence?
Have you ever renounced your United States citizenship?
Are you an alien illegally in the United States?
Are you an alien admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa?
Do you have a valid government-issued photo identification, such as a driver’s license?
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