"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it." - American inventor Charles Kettering.
The news that Very Stable Genius Donald "Rump" Trump has re-aligned himself with his stalwart supporters at the National
The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but it backed off President Trump’s earlier call to raise the minimum age to purchase some guns to 21 years old from 18 years old.
Responding directly to last month’s gun massacre at a Florida high school, the administration rolled out several policy proposals that focus largely on mental health and school safety initiatives. The idea of arming some teachers has been controversial and has drawn sharp opposition from the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers lobby, among other groups. Many of the student survivors have urged Washington to toughen restrictions on gun purchases, but such measures are fiercely opposed by the National Rifle Association, and the Trump plan does not include substantial changes to gun laws.
Rather, the president is establishing a Federal Commission on School Safety, to be chaired by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, that will explore possible solutions, such as the age requirement for purchases, officials said. (our emphasis)Yasss! Exploring "possible solutions," with the exception of anything that might be a "possible solution." When the tiny, sane step of raising the minimum age for buying an assault rifle is a bridge too far for these sociopaths, you know the NRA still has them by the short hairs.
Even Rump's rotted- out- regime shysters know what a time- killing scam this is:
At a political rally Saturday night in Pennsylvania, Trump mocked the idea of commissions to solve the nation’s drug epidemic. “Do you think the drug dealers who kill thousands of people during their lifetime, do you think they care who’s on a blue-ribbon committee?” Trump said. “The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness.”
Administration officials demurred Sunday night when asked why Trump found commissions an inadequate response to the drug epidemic but an appropriate way to respond to gun massacres. (our emphasis)Here's your answer: drug dealers aren't funding Rump and those coin- operated Republicans, gun dealers are.
BONUS: Steve Benen reminds us why it's no use looking to Rump for "policy" (spoiler alert: because he's an incompetent idiot).
BONUS II: What she says --
See kids— lynda (@crazyfamilyomg) March 12, 2018
This is what 30 million will buy you. A coward that trembles at the thought of the big bad @NRA. i knew he wouldn't do anything so we have to vote putting people in Congress not beholding to Trump or the @NRA.
(Photo: Pretend president with pretend gun.)
