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Trump delivers a speech about the shooting but DOES NOT MENTION GUNS.  Good God.  Says he will make schools safer.  Music to the ears of gun nuts.  Arms the teachers!  heck, arm the students!  Make schools into impregnable fortresses with military style security.  Who's going to pay for that?  The middle class of course, through a Safe School tax.  After all, would you not pay to make your children safe?

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4 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

I hope he means his own 

 

How do you tackle mental health when you can't even provide all of your citizens basic healthcare? I assume they'll be locking more people away.

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Its nonsense.  What changed after vegas?  They find ways to deflect from the real issue and people forget about it in time.  Like the cops can suddenly be mental healthy professionals or lock away anyone they suspect of anything.   Its ridiculous.  Trump always sounds like he's struggling with these prepared speeches where he has to sound presidential and caring.  He doesnt give a ****.  Not a single mention of "gun".    If this kid bought beer, they'd arrest him.  Owning an AR-15?  His constitutional right. 

Americans can change this.  There are published lists of congress members who receive money from the NRA.  Do not vote for them.  If unsure, vote Democrat.  This issue is too important to be party loyal. 

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President has limited power.  Blame congress.  Right now you have a government where the same party controls all three branches.  If the GOP (from Trump to Congress) wanted gun control, they'd have it tomorrow.   Its that simple.  Congress stonewalled many Obama attempts at gun control.  They wont even debate it.  They are bought and paid for.  Period.

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4 minutes ago, iHeart said:

I bet Hillary would have put them back

Supposedly wikileaks released emails showing Hilary was harder on gun control than she let on and was going to try to end run congress using executive orders.

If a Democratic President and Congress enacted strict control, Im not sure it would ever be undone.  People who cry about their rights would eventually see that nothing changed.  Only the crazies thaty feel the need to stockpile assault weapons for the coming end of times would be mad.  And they probably shouldnt have guns at all.

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The  Center for Responsive Politics , a nonpartisan think tank that tracks money in politics, found that in 2016 more than half of the members of the House of Representatives — or 232 of the 435 — received money from gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America. That money went disproportionately to Republicans. Only nine Democrats received campaign contributions from these groups.

Some charity.

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16 minutes ago, do or die said:

The Federal Assault Weapons Ban enacted in 1994 expired in 2004.  Currently 43 states have no ban on assault weapons.   But no real need for any form of legislation on this.......

And whats the argument?  2nd Amendment?  Thats so silly.  Even if you interpret the amendment to guarantee gun rights, which many people do NOT believe it does, people treat that amendment as if it's written in stone.  They have changed or added/deleted amendments all the time.  They are not written in stone.

And one can make the argument that an assault weapon is totally unneeded.  If the argument is that you cant cherry pick when it comes to right the bear arms, whats next?  Can they walk into WalMart and buy a missile launcher?  How about a nuclear weapon?  No thats crazy.  Civilians having assault weapons is crazy.  The rest of the world laughs at America on this issue.

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