Discussion: CNN: NRA Officials Asked Trump To Reconsider Age Increase For Rifle Sales

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The White House plans to release it’s proposals for school safety improvements on Thursday.

Surely they’ll have so many proposals they’ll need more than a day to release them all.

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Leaders of the National Rifle Association (NRA) appealed directly to President Donald Trump about reconsidering his position on increasing the age limit for rifle purchases from 18 to 21, CNN reported Wednesday.

There will be more mass shootings in schools. Nothing of consequence will ever be done to make them more difficult to commit. Guns are like the silverware in your kitchen drawer, ubiquitous and never going away, nor made more onerous to procure. Death and taxes are two sure things in life, and thousands a year will suffer the former by gun. Forever.
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I tend to lean towards, demanded, not reconsider.
As in, if you run in 2020 we might just run over you. lol

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Leaders of the National Rifle Association (NRA) appealed directly to President Donald Trump about reconsidering his position on increasing the age limit for rifle purchases from 18 to 21, CNN reported Wednesday.

I kinda figured that. Trump was for age increases before he was against them. Or rather, before he was still supporting the “concept.”

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Title contains an assumption not in evidence. The word reconsider implies that Trump previously considered the idea of an age increase, rather than suggesting it out of the pure self-defensive impulse that is Traitor Donald’s usual MO.

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Trump has the backbone of seaweed under restless waters.

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The NRA does not get it, but they know they can manipulate BLOTUS. They are facing an existential tidal wave as the young people and their message builds momentum. Continuing to go after the students only will make it worse for them.

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The NRA really is a bunch of lying cretins, aren’t they? The ONLY reason they oppose the age limit is because it will cut into gun/ammo sales which will affect their bottom line.

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NRA - much like the Tobacco companies in the initial days of opposition to smoking - they have the oppose everything strategy - even the most sensible - oppose oppose oppose - because of the “any changes open the door to more changes” mentality

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So are they going to wear bulletproof vests while playing softball?

The timing of this anyway is so completely tone deaf.

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What about when he was asked to release his tax-returns?

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Anyone that watched the high school kids agitate for gun law change over the last week and thought “These young people are going to get something done about this, finally” is naive and suffering from delusions.

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Sure, hope can be delusional, but it’s still hope.

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Well, it’s a bit more meta than that - particulars don’t count, whether they affect sales or not. They are against any rules or regulation, no matter how trivial, no matter how unconsequential for sales. There’s only one way they want that slippery slope to tilt.

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Oh, shut up. Fifty years ago it was the Viet Nam war. It’s a long road, but we’ve got their backs.

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Yeah whatever. We all are impressed by your total cynicism and think it makes you SO cool.

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This tweet needs to be shouted from the rooftops. They work in a gun-free zone and now this? I sure hope those kids hear about it.

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Mistaking realism for cynicism is a faulty way to approach a problem. If I tasked you with lifting a Buick and heaving it over a wall your protestations there’s no way you could do it would not result in me labeling you a cynic.

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That’s a nice 2020 campaign ya got going there.
It’d be a real shame if anything happened to the funding

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