GOP Lawmakers Wait Out Trump in Gun Control Debate

So while students protest on March 14 “demanding” that something be done to protect the innocent whose lives could be eliminated by a unstable person, let them not turn a blind eye to the almost one million children of God whose lives are taken annually by abortion.

It is insane that an educated country has listened to nonsense like that for so long.

There are nearly as many guns in our country as there are people. (Im writing a book on the Belton gun and can safely say her argument was bunk.) Here was the NRAs top voice in a time of tragedy, defending AR-15 ownership as a bedrock constitutional right by name-checking two 18th-century manually operated flintlocks – quite incorrectly – as “fully automatic weapons.”.

The NRA tries to persuade people that every reasonable regulation of guns is but a step toward the complete disarmament of American citizens. While DFLers are pushing for more discussion on gun measures, Republicans want to discuss school safety and mental health as ways to stem potential school shootings.

“I already have a bunch of overhead”, said Polhamus. Since then, I have often wondered what the next issue might be that could galvanize a generation around a worthy cause for social or political change.

But a key sticking point has been whether to allow teachers to carry guns as part of voluntary program, implemented only if the sheriff’s department and school district agree.

What’s so disgusting that these students thought they were prepared for this, but never thought it would actually happen at their school, and why?

“It’s unfortunate that the gun-control lobby is so obsessed with banning guns that they blame and shame hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans for the acts of a deranged lunatic”, she said. The rally was organized by Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, who has refocused his own primary campaign on encouraging the student activism.

The most fascinating moment involved the issue of guns being taken from potentially unsafe people. That student needed help and support.

In my career I have seen students like that. “Now when that friend walks into her classroom, her first thought is always, ‘Where can I hide the kids if I need to?'” He also killed his parents. One of my former students lived there and remembered how hard it was on the community to grieve and find peace after such a awful act of violence.

As a teacher and a high school principal, I was fortunate in my career to have had the opportunity to teach and interact with many wonderful students over the years.

We’re going to need to do some soul-searching.

This time, Florida students who survived the slaughter of their classmates hope for a different outcome. It includes $400 million of money to do stuff like add metal detectors, bulletproof glass, upgrade security in schools but also to hire mental health counselors, to get more mental health counseling in the schools to identify kids with problems and to head them off beforehand, also money for school resource officers. The NRA is not the future, all of us, we’re the future.

Write to your representatives and senators.

The answer to these questions, I believe, is that the NRA can best achieve its goal, which many knowledgeable observers say is to enrich the gun industry, by stoking the fears of law-abiding gun owners. I just don’t know what to do and that’s why I am here tonight. We were lucky – he survived.

There are multiple bills addressing guns before Minnesota lawmakers this session, from a stand your ground bill that would give homeowners more legal protections to defend themselves against people who broke into their homes to a universal background checks proposal requiring private gun sales to be conducted before a licensed seller.

The city of Portland removed a homeless encampment from a Columbia Slough natural area in Northeast Portland. He made a prophetic remark: “We do not have to accept this carnage as the price of freedom”. And 77 percent say Congress isn’t doing enough.

Saturday’s meeting suggests that student-led effort might also succeed in bringing attention to the crippling effects gun violence has on students beyond school walls. “I think Republicans have an obligation to work with Democrats to make it law”. Many in the business, faith, and nonprofit communities are engaged, but we can and should do more.