Seem like there are more people "petrified" of the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C. than it first appeared.
Remember a few weeks ago when President Trump criticized Pa. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and others who had convened at the White House to talk about gun violence in the wake of the latest mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Trump wanted to know why the bill Toomey had proposed along with Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., did not address something Trump was suggesting, hiking the age to buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21.
Trump cut off Toomey in mid-sentence to announce that too many people in the room were "afraid" of the NRA.
He vowed he was not.
But just a few weeks after the wild scene where the president seemed to be spouting off Democratic talking points on gun control, the president seems to have had a change of heart - after he sat down with NRA officials.
He said there does seem like there is much political support for increasing the age to buy a semi-automatic. His push to arm some teachers? He'll leave that to state and local governments to decide.
Yesterday the House passed a school safety package. It did not contain any major gun control measures.
It looks increasingly like the only way gun laws in this country are going to change are if young people force the adults' hand.
They got a good start yesterday in the National School Walkout.
Kids all over Delaware County took part.
They seemed to have one word on their minds.
Enough.
You can read our coverage here.
And check out our editorial on the president's change of heart here.
Comments
Mental health reform is the answer. The killers in Parkland and Sandy Hook are my examples.
Secondly, I am listening the children speaking their mind, I am less impressed on what I hear from the mouths. They are spouting lies and embellished emotional nonsense.
Let me get this straight, we have people who want to listen to the children raise the age of a right! What if I put that right in their first amendment? You must be 21 to speak your mind? And do me a favor, don’t say speech doesn’t kill. Free speech has got more people killed than guns ever has.
So usually I see people speaking their mind for more freedoms. In this case I see a bunch of children who have no idea what they are talking about attempting to infringe on a human right.
I will listen to facts. They offer none.
As to the NRA and the President. You know why he isn’t afraid of the NRA? He talks to them all the time. They give him facts. When they explained to him how the raising age of firearms ownership of both handguns AND rifles it was unconstitutional and coonvinced him it was correct. Feel free to read the Florida State lawsuit. Constitutional scholars on both side agree this Florida law won’t pass constitutional approval. So Governor Scott signed it and will let the court over rule it. See how that works?