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.
Well, if they’re to immature to buy a firearm until they are 21 , then maybe, we should also jack up the voting age, age of consent, age to get married, age they can be drafted, age they can get credit cards or take out a loan.
What about abortions, obviously they can’t make logical decisions until their 21, so no abortion unless you have a parents permission. The possibilities are endless!
They’ll stop once their rights start getting trampled.
When he’s elected in the state of Florida he can talk, otherwise, mind your states business, not mine!
Sanity prevails over psychotic democrat estrogen.
Good to see it.
Stand tall Florida.
>>>Harris said she supports the Second Amendment<<<
Anybody who believes that should be give a Frontal Lobotomy, which of course would expand the Membership Rolls of the Democrat Party.
Good for them! Stop the gun hate!
>>>A busload of surviving students<<<
Did somebody blow up the entire School and save these Useful Idiots from the rubble?
Probably going to sell it anyway - as I get older, i don't have as much 'tolerance" for weapons that beat on me. Hmmmmm, maybe a nice AR-15 would make a good compromise....
Banning the gun is not the answer! Unless you answer the question “why are there people whose ‘value system’ allows them to shoot innocents?” you will not stop these shootings.
(50 years of godless liberal indoctrination.)
Blaming the weapon is like blaming the automobile with a drunk driver at the wheel.
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