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White House pledges to help states pay for firearms training for teachers
The Associated Press
Posted: Mar 12, 2018 1:06 AM ET
Last Updated: Mar 12, 2018 1:06 AM ET
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 in the U.S.
But .. the plan does not include a push to increase the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons to 21 ...
The plan is less ambitious than the changes Trump advocated in a series of listening sessions ...
"I mean, so they buy a revolver a handgun they buy at the age of 21. And yet, these other weapons that we talk about ... they're allowed to buy them at 18. So how does that make sense?" he told school officials last month. "We're going to work on getting the age up to 21 instead of 18."
White House spokesperseon Raj Shah had said earlier Sunday in an interview with ABC's This Week that "the president has been clear that he does support raising the age to 21" and that that would be a "component" of the announcement ...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-gun-control-1.4572042
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)By Jennifer Epstein
March 11, 2018, 7:45 PM EDT
Updated on March 11, 2018, 11:18 PM EDT
... Trump is .. calling on states to adopt so-called red flag laws to allow authorities to take guns from individuals who are determined by a court to be a threat to themselves or others, according to recommendations released by the White House on Sunday ...
The measures endorsed by Trump fall short of those that were expected, including a call for states to raise the minimum age to buy certain guns ...
... On a conference call with reporters, two administration officials didnt explain why that proposal was excluded ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-11/white-house-unveils-measures-to-keep-schools-safer-from-shooters
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)March 11, 2018
9:08 pm
By Jonathan Chait
On February 21, President Trump met with survivors of the Parkland school shooting and attempted to convey a sincere intention to act. Thank you for pouring out your hearts, he said, because the world is watching and were going to come up with a solution. A week later Trump held a surreal, televised discussion with members of Congress in which he advocated comprehensive gun control, including powerful background checks and raising the age of legal purchase for assault rifles. He accused fellow Republicans of being afraid of the National Rifle Association ...
... next ... Trump met with the head of the NRA. He stopped talking about the issue he was going to solve. He held a White House meeting about video games, an apparent attempt to deflect attention away from guns as a cause of mass murder. And now the Trump administration has unveiled its plan, which looks a lot like
something a politician who was afraid of the NRA would support ...
... as a man driven by personal loyalties and grudges, he gravitates towards people who praise him and lashes out at those who oppose him. Since the former are all Republicans, and the latter mostly Democrats, it is childs play for conservatives to bring Trump back into the fold when he wanders off. It has gotten to the point where nobody even takes Trump seriously when he makes him promises of bipartisan action. He is far too weak and ignorant to follow through.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/after-taunting-gop-as-afraid-of-nra-trump-gives-in-to-nra.html
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)"Mr. Trump-- you are the sorriest creature to have hit the White House since Harding, and quite possibly even far worse than he was.
You are a coward and a conman and under no circumstances to be trusted or believed.
We demand you at last prove yourself worthy of the office by reducing the age to buy so-called assault weapons. Even better, reduce the age to buy handguns."
(It might work)
ornotna
(10,763 posts)What a surprise. Not.
Same as it ever was.
My thoughts and prayers for the future victims.
malaise
(267,796 posts)Cons will con!