Posted on 02/20/2018 3:08:01 PM PST by Kaslin
A busload of surviving students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School traveled to the Florida state capital Tuesday to lobby on behalf of gun control legislation. Despite their efforts, the Florida House has voted down a motion take up a ban on the AR-15, tabling the measure. The vote was 36-71.
Seventeen people were killed and over a dozen injured when a former student opened fire on the school last week. The shooter, Nikolas Cruz, used an AR-15.
Soon after the carnage, lawmakers renewed their calls for a ban on the rifle. It got support from even Republican governors like John Kasich, who wondered why anyone would need a firearm like it.
At about the same time, President Trump declared his support for legislation to ban bump stocks, a feature which gives a gun owner the ability to fire off rounds more quickly.
"We can do more to protect our children," he said at a Medal of Valor ceremony Tuesday afternoon. "We must do more to protect our children.”
Shortly after those remarks, he signed a memo authorizing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to enforce the ban.
A larger group of students is expected to stage a protest Wednesday in Tallahassee, but the demonstrations aren't limited to Florida. Over the weekend, protesters staged a "lie-in" at the White House to demand lawmakers take some action on gun control.
While the legislation to ban AR-15s is stalled in the Florida legislature, Republican lawmakers said other measures are still on the table.
Sen. Bill Galvano, a Republican and the incoming Florida senate president, said the state Senate was preparing a package that would include raising the age to purchase any firearm to 21, creating a waiting period for purchasing any type of firearm, banning bump stocks that can enable semi-automatic guns to spray bullets quickly and creating gun-violence restraining orders.
And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)
And it continues...
And there is more...
And more...
And yet more...
And more and more and...
We just keep buyin' more...
And we bought more more more...
And more and more and more...
Could it be? More?
More Americans buy more guns...
We just love guns...
KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMOCRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)
Kamela should yell that to the abortuary owners in her
$#!thole neighborhood.
Dinesh D’Souza is being attacked twitter for :
Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/966078572321562625
It is what it is...eliminate the emotions.
The Left will use anything to further its agenda. ANYTHING.
This country is at war. An internal war.
Get this sadness shiite out of here.
There is no place for sadness in an existential war.
If we lose, we die.
How sad is that.
Pick up your weapon and attack the enemy.
As Churchill said, anything less than victory is unacceptable. It is defeat.
We must win or we will die!
Is that plain enough?
So any one on school grounds at the time is a survivor ?
I have a friend lives in Parkland,is she a survivor?
Kid targeted the 3 story Bldg..and then hauled ass
They probably don’t understand that guns do not kill people, bullets kill people. It doesn’t matter which gun is used to fire them.
KaSick a Republican? Surely, you jest! Don’t call me Shirley!
KaSick is worthless Progressive POS! I understand his mother carried a male?
“...when you have a majority liberal community, the parents teach the kids this is what they have learned..”
Coward county...2/3 for Hillary.
Free Cruz...the gun did it!
Murder, rape, robbery, and mayhem, committed under force of arms to assure submission, are NEVER legal.
Apparently, legality is not what is being promoted here. Command and control are the objective, no matter by what means they may be achieved.
They don’t understand why we have a 2nd Amendment either.
Thank God!
Fox News just reported that Russia bots are pushing anti-gun stories
time for the Florida legislature to approve armed guards and authorizing volunteer teachers to be trained and given concealed carry licenses to defend the students. And to terminate schools as “gun free zones.”
“It’s very sad to see the students being exploited by the media over this.”
And also most likely their dumb $hit Liberal parents too!
Why does the article show a 40 something year old feminist looking liberal that is supposed to be one of these high school teens protesting? Those aren’t the teeth and neck of a teen ager.
“Harris said she supports the Second Amendment, but “we have to have smart gun safety laws.””
What a bald-faced liar! Before being elected to the US Senate to replac Babs Boxof$hit, she was our AG. She “busied herself” on trying to outlaw guns here.
“Next up:
Voting to ban Dodge Challengers for what happened in Charlottesville.
Right?”
We had a family loss by a drunk Plymouth Barracuda driver. I don’t have a hard on for Barracudas.
Outside of Broward county there’s some solid Rs..
those minority votes are worrisome, but overall this is excellent news from Florida, the state that COULD have panicked .. but didn’t
ps to President Trump...you have NO cause whatsoever, not even any political one..... to go back now on your campaign pledges to protect and defend our 2A rights!
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