Trump's awful plan to arm teachers is straight from the NRA playbook

President Trump deserves credit for agreeing to meet with a delegation of frustrated and emotional survivors of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Given his all too cozy and politically motivated alliance with the National Rifle Association, he was caught between the students’ demands for tighter gun restrictions and his supporters’ concern about sliding down the slippery slope of Second Amendment infringement.

At the end of the “listening session,” Trump followed the NRA playbook. He offered up the gun lobby’s rather minor concessions — banning bump stocks and maybe raising the legal age for purchasing a high-powered weapon of mass murder destruction from 18 to 21. You could probably count on one hand the total number of mass killings over the past three decades that those changes might have affected.


Source : usatoday