Backs off call for raising minimum age to buy assault weapons

[struggle4progress]

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]

1. Gun Plan Backs Armed Teachers, Avoids Changing Age Limits

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 didn’t 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]

2. After Taunting Republicans for Being Afraid of NRA, Trump Gives In to NRA

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 we’re 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 child’s 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]

5. How about...

"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]

3. Who saw that coming?

What a surprise. Not.
Same as it ever was.



My thoughts and prayers for the future victims.

[malaise]

4. here's reality

Cons will con!