Only 2 protesters. i am kind of disappointed. i was making a drinking game out of it after the second one. Either security was better than I would have expected normally, or they didn?t really make an effort to get in. Although to be honest I would not have been surprised at an assignation attempt after all the calls for violence against the NRA from the ?anti-gun? community lately
I wish they had spent more time on the caliber question. I am told by my wife that the kids watched the news conference with her and broke into hysterical laughter at the news media description of 223 as "one of the most powerful rifle cartridges". I suppose the lack of willful ignorance on our childrens part is our fault. Ah well, what will be will be.
I like the approach to school security he recommended. Quite frankly I could get behind having trained emergency responders armed in schools without much trouble. And I know at least one person that a weapons instructor position for those responders would be perfect for. He is a little too old, in his opinion, for a responder, but has probably forgotten more about firearms than I would learn in two lifetimes.
Opps. almost forgot about the national database for mentally ill persons. I will assume this is just ignorance on his part. Anyone who advocates for this either does not understand how the DSM-5 works, or worse, understands exactly how it works. I think the statistics say 80% of adults can be diagnosed with some form of mental illness, ranging from ADD to seasonal depression to outright psychopathic/sociopathic behavior. And it keeps expanding every year. Most of these have no effect on a person everyday life, but do technically qualify as mental illness. A national database of such people would decimate the nations gun owners. Just for example there is one illness where the desire to own a firearm can qualify a person as mentally ill. Look at the ?Gun controls new frontier? thread for more info. (
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