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perspective from a gun owner in America who lived through and escaped the soviet iron curtain. he also has 2 kids in public school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hmoKPz-eQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hmoKPz-eQ0
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Congress rejects new gun laws
(Reuters) - Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress said on Tuesday that they would not raise the minimum age for gun buyers, in a sign that one of President Donald Trump’s proposals likely will not get far on Capitol Hill after a deadly Florida school shooting.
The second-deadliest shooting at a U.S. public school has reignited the long-running national debate over gun rights, pitting many of the students who survived the Feb. 14 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, against powerful gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association.
Trump has suggested arming teachers and raising the minimum age to buy semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, but Republicans in Congress said they were not likely to act on either idea.
“We shouldn’t be banning guns from law-abiding citizens. We should be focusing on making sure that citizens who should not get guns in the first place don’t get those guns,” House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan told a news conference.
Ryan said local governments, not Congress, should decide whether to arm teachers.
Trump still supports raising the age limit and will release specific policy proposals this week, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
Ryan’s comments made it clear that more aggressive gun limits, like a ban on the military-style rifle used by the 19-year-old Parkland shooter, were unlikely to gain traction in Congress.
Prosecutors have said that Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland with a legally purchased rifle. Federal and local law enforcement agencies have acknowledged receiving multiple warnings about Cruz’s potential for violence.
Trump and his fellow Republicans are under pressure to act following the Parkland shooting, but they also must avoid angering Republican voters who broadly support gun rights as well as interest groups like the NRA, which spent $55 million in the 2016 election.
The House voted in December to bolster the national background check system after the Air Force failed to provide records that could have flagged a former service member who killed 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in November.
That legislation has broad support in the Senate as well, and Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican, John Cornyn, said he wants a vote to take place this week.
Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer said that by itself would not be adequate. He called for Congress to expand the background check system to cover all gun sales, including those conducted at gun shows and over the internet. That legislation has failed in Congress twice over the past five years.
“We Democrats, at a minimum, believe we should be passing a universal background check legislation that assures that guns don’t fall into the wrong hands,” Schumer told reporters.
The White House does not back that idea, Sanders said.
As Congress has failed to tighten gun laws in the wake of other mass shootings, states have taken action on their own.
Legislation that would raise the minimum age to buy assault weapons from 18 to 21 passed a committee in the Republican-controlled Florida legislature on Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
The measure, which passed on a party-line vote, also would create a program to train teachers to carry guns in schools and impose a three-day waiting period to buy a gun. It must win approval from the full state legislature and Republican Governor Rick Scott to take effect.
CRUZ TO PROVIDE DNA
The Florida court where Cruz faces 17 counts of premeditated murder on Tuesday canceled a hearing where prosecutors had been scheduled to seek hair and DNA samples from the suspect.
Cruz’s publicly appointed defender, Gordon Weekes, said he reached a deal with Broward County prosecutors late Monday to provide those samples, making the hearing unnecessary.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who is hearing the case, on Monday rejected a request by defense attorneys to recuse herself from the case. They had argued that she had shown herself to favor the prosecutors.
Cruz’s case is due to return to court on Wednesday for a hearing to determine whether he has sufficient assets to pay for his own defense, Weekes said. Cruz’s mother died in November.Comment
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Nothing will change. We will just keep going until the next shooting. And the next.
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Until we address the main issues sadly you are correct. LE doing their job would be a start. Hardening our schools like we do a federal building would be another. Soft target gun free zones in a country with 500,000,000 firearms is not common sense. Getting rid of those firearms is not a reality so lets focus on what we CAN do shall we?Originally posted by Scrumhalf View PostComment
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what a concept.I want to live in an America where we can meet a healthy medium, where I can own my AR-15 and the mentally ill get the help they need.Comment
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the AR-15 owner that turned in his AR... not the slightest bit suspicious that an AR owner put his optic on backwards... there is absolutely zero chance this was done for political points... lol
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My kinda guy
http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/...-confiscation/
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It's like that all over Cali. State law says one thing and what local cops and sheriff's actually enforce is a whole other matter. The only anti gun people in Cali are politicians. LE are pro gun 99% of the time.Originally posted by lipripper View PostComment
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Hey...who's comming up with all the money for all these kids going to the state capitol in Florida to protesting...tour buses..hotels...food? Hummm?Originally posted by Bouncer View Post
If they wanna put an age limit on buying a gun...do it for cell phones...read a stat today...if true... 11 teenagers die a day in the us from operating a vehicle while texting n driving....that adds up to a whole lot more then killed with the evil AR...why isn't it being protested? Hypocrites
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They don't care about kids. Feinstein is on an all out attack on AR-15 while calling handguns nothing more then a nail gun. LolOriginally posted by lipripper View Post
Nevermind the fact that far more people are killed with handguns each year. Numbers aren't even close. Yet it's the "military assult rifle" that is the problem..Comment
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Scrum, if I missed it I apologize but what would you like to see done?Originally posted by Scrumhalf View PostComment
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i'm pretty sure he has the same viewpoint on firearms that Dianne Feinstein does.Originally posted by Chadd77 View PostComment
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I'm too busy running by business to research this, but there are some reports of a teacher in Georgia locking himself into a classroom and firing shots.Comment
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What's you business called the cock sucking cooperation?Comment
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