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riversedge

(70,253 posts)
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 09:56 PM Mar 2018

Trump backs off call for raising minimum age to buy gun

Source: AP




By JILL COLVIN Just now


WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Sunday pledged to help states pay for firearms training for teachers and reiterated its call to improve the background check system as part of a new plan to prevent school shootings.

But in a move sure to please the gun lobby, the plan does not include a push to increase the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons to 21, which President Donald Trump had repeatedly championed.

Instead, a new federal commission on school safety will examine the age issue, as well as a long list of others topics, as part of a longer-term look at school safety and violence.

The plan forgoes an endorsement of comprehensive background checks for gun purchases, which the president, at times, seemed to embrace................

Read more: https://www.apnews.com/75418042adbc43fe9f1a33d366ca4cf8/Trump-backs-off-call-for-raising-minimum-age-to-buy-gun



Might have know it was too good to be true (that he would endorse age 21 to buy guns)


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Trump backs off call for raising minimum age to buy gun (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2018 OP
He has a down-pillow mind. Hold the impression of the last person to touch it . . . Journeyman Mar 2018 #1
Typical repuke-kick the can down the road by forming a commission (which will accomplish NOTHING) groundloop Mar 2018 #2
+10,000 Angry Dragon Mar 2018 #5
They snapped...... SergeStorms Mar 2018 #11
If you notice the "plan" does not include the cost of the gun pazzyanne Mar 2018 #3
DeVos will find the money Angry Dragon Mar 2018 #6
Don't have a lot of confidence in her abilities. pazzyanne Mar 2018 #7
I do not trust her Angry Dragon Mar 2018 #10
Pussy brain. truthisfreedom Mar 2018 #4
Whew! I was afraid he was going to break his record for doing nothing to help regular people. nt LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2018 #8
21yo-only gun sales are a false solution Crash2Parties Mar 2018 #9
If if only #OneLessGun, it matters. riversedge Mar 2018 #12
Only 2 shooters? IronLionZion Mar 2018 #14
My apologies, that should've read *mass* shooters / using assualt rifles. Crash2Parties Mar 2018 #15
But of course. He's the Chinese food of politics... Javaman Mar 2018 #13

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)
1. He has a down-pillow mind. Hold the impression of the last person to touch it . . .
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 10:06 PM
Mar 2018

He has no convictions; he only reflects what others say.

groundloop

(11,519 posts)
2. Typical repuke-kick the can down the road by forming a commission (which will accomplish NOTHING)
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 10:12 PM
Mar 2018

He had his little bit of glory but the NRA has obviously gotten him back in line. The commission will hold hearings, hold more hearings, then hold even more hearings. A report will be issued in about 3 years, and nothing whatsoever will be done, nothing.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
11. They snapped......
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 04:18 AM
Mar 2018

the financial leash that they have attached to all of their Republican lackeys, and Trump heeled like a good little puppy should.

Trump is notorious for stiffing contractors who do work for him. Then he dares them to litigate. That's his modus operandi. When you agree to allow the NRA to own a piece of you, that's a tactic that may prove to be hazardous to your health. If you take their money, you'll want to be sure to give them their money's worth IF you want to go through life with the standard issue number of holes nature provides the human body. The NRA would be more than happy to provide additional holes if so inclined.

Fuck the NRA, and fuck every politician who takes their blood money, no matter which political party they belong to. The vast majority of their purchased politicians happen to have a (R) after their name, however. Democrats get very little money from the death merchants, and I want it to stay that way. I'd like to get them out of the politician purchase game altogether, but that's a tall order these days.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
3. If you notice the "plan" does not include the cost of the gun
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 10:47 PM
Mar 2018

only the cost of training the school employees. The school will have to purchase the guns. The same schools that cannot fully fund teaching supplies which puts teachers in the position of buying supplies to do their teaching duties. Will teachers now have to purchase ammunition for the guns they will be trained to use? There is also no specific information how annual mandatory training and costs of regular use of gun shooting ranges will be accomplished. There is no mention of trying to reduce access to high capacity ammunition or automatic and semi-automatic weaponry. That continues to put the "good guy" with a hand gun up against the "bad guy" with unlimited fire power. This is an asinine and dangerous plan IMHO.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
7. Don't have a lot of confidence in her abilities.
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 02:21 AM
Mar 2018

She thinks all schools should have guns to shoot the grizzly bears that visit them.

Crash2Parties

(6,017 posts)
9. 21yo-only gun sales are a false solution
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 02:35 AM
Mar 2018

Only *2* shooters since 1982 were under 21. It was a feel-good, do-nothing sort of PR wash by retailers.

Javaman

(62,531 posts)
13. But of course. He's the Chinese food of politics...
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:13 AM
Mar 2018

with Chinese food, the old joke goes: you are hungry 20 minutes later.

with the orange asshole, anytime he says anything, you know it will be total bullshit 20 minutes later.

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