Florida gun debate will soon shift to campaign trail

We knew the drills were useless but we really didn’t think we were going to catch an atomic bomb. “Republicans are so concerned that the NRA will put up money to primary them that the thought of supporting gun control legislation is nearly unheard of”.

Instead of spending millions of dollars in gifts to politicians, the NRA should put their money where their mouth is and protect the Second Amendment by living up to Mr. LaPierre’s statement, who is the spokesperson for the NRA: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”. The trigger to electoral triumph or a moral (but Pyrrhic) victory in which playing the gun control card too hard turned out to be a case of shooting yourself in the electoral foot?

Almost two-thirds of those – including Iowa’s sweeping expansion of gun rights in 2017 – were backed by the NRA.

“We didn’t see this coming”, Cesare said. This could include teaching the reason for the current state of things or how to make them better for the future.

Some big name stores have begun the change. The solution is simple. Vote to change the laws. While most seem ready to support the package, they acknowledge it fails to do anything to blunt high-powered weapons and potentially adds even more guns in schools. Our nation has watched political action fail repeatedly.

As usual, city governments – where the law enforcement rubber meets the road – do get it. There is no universally accepted definition of a public mass shooting. He argues the “liberal approach” to regulate guns is “ineffective”.

There are thought to be about 300 million guns in the US, held by about a third of the population. The sad part about this is the people being affected by these awful tragedies are ones who are not able to vote.

So do most Americans. Though this striking data is important to take into account, there is an overwhelming lack of research conducted on gun ownership, training and violence.

Earlier in the week, during the meeting about school safety and gun control, Trump highlighted the fear that some Republicans – not himself, he said – have when dealing with the NRA. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, pulled Senate File 2106, the “constitutional carry” law that would have done away with the general prohibition on carrying weapons without a permit as well as repealing the duty to carry a permit.

“Most Americans believe we should solve problems that Americans are facing like gun violence and school safety problems”, Graham said.

At the meeting, Trump upended long-held GOP bargaining positions on guns, not only endorsing expanded background checks, but also lending support to a ban on assault weapons and stating that when it comes to confiscating weapons, authorities should “take the guns first, go through due process second”.

“Every day in our country, almost 100 Americans die from gun violence”. Under the 1994 assault weapons ban, the AR-15 rifle used by Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz would have been unobtainable through the means in which it was purchased.

How has the gun lobby responded?

“This is different because of what you’ve already seen with the students, and because of what you’re going to see on March 24 in about 100 cities, with the lead city being Washington, D.C. It’s going to be massive”, Nelson said of the March For Our Lives rally expected to draw 500,000 to Washington alone. We can not allow the danger and violence that stems from guns to persist.

Proposals to ban the most popular rifles in America, arbitrarily limit magazine capacity, require a waiting period on all firearm sales, and restrict the right of law-abiding young adults to acquire rifles and shotguns have been suggested as “solutions” by those who wish to curtail the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Regulating guns to reduce the number of deaths and violence will not be easy, nor will it happen all at once. While it’s small, this is a step in the right direction.