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National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre makes remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference. MIKE THEILER/UPI/PA Images

NRA chief criticises 'politicisation' of Florida school shooting

He also doubled down on the NRA’s longstanding position that armed Americans were the first line of defence in confronting deadly attacks.

AMERICA’S POWERFUL GUN  industry today accused its critics of exploiting a deadly school shooting in Florida for political gain, as President Donald Trump watered down demands for tougher regulation with a deeply controversial call to arm teachers.

National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre hit back at what he called “the shameful politicisation of tragedy”, fighting a rearguard defence against street protests and mounting demands to tighten America’s permissive gun laws.

In his first public comments since the Valentine’s Day rampage that left 17 dead in a Florida high school, LaPierre reiterated long-standing accusations that gun control advocates were seeking to roll back the constitutional right to bear arms.

“It’s a classic strategy right out of the playbook of a poisonous movement,” he told an annual conservative conference outside Washington, hitting out at supposed “socialists” on the political left, and at the “so-called national news media”.

“For them, it’s not a safety issue, it’s a political issue,” he charged.

They hate the NRA. They hate the Second Amendment. They hate individual freedom.

He also doubled down on the NRA’s longstanding position that armed Americans were the first line of defence in confronting deadly attacks, saying:

To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.

The NRA’s cause received a significant boost when Trump – in his second meeting at the White House on school safety in as many days – doubled down on a plan to respond to the Parkland carnage by putting more guns in schools.

He declared “gun free” schools a “magnet” for mass shooters and proposed bonuses for teachers who are willing to carry concealed firearms.

Trump had earlier proposed raising from 18 to 21 the minimum age to buy more guns than at present – like the assault-style rifle used by 19-year-old Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz – and making it more difficult for the mentally ill to own firearms.

Currently under federal law, anyone 18 or over can buy a gun from a private, unlicensed seller, although a handful of states have set the minimum age at 21.

Those measures, which may struggle to pass the Republican-controlled Congress, could have put him at odds with the NRA, which donated to and endorsed his campaign.

“I really think the NRA wants to do what’s right,” Trump said.

I mean, they’re very close to me, I’m very close to them, they’re very, very great people. They love this country. They’re patriots.

Teachers warn of ‘arms race’ in schools

Trump insisted he was not advocating arming every American teacher, but only those with “military or special training” – suggesting that would be around 20%.

That would mean weapons for around 700,000 educators, a potentially massive business opportunity for gun manufacturers.

“A gun-free zone to a killer or somebody who wants to be a killer, that’s like going in for the ice cream,” he said.

“That’s like, ‘Here I am, take me.’

“In my opinion, you won’t have these shootings.

Because these people are cowards. They’re not going to walk into a school if 20% of the teachers have guns. It may be 10%, it may be 40%.

Teachers’ unions were quick to condemn his proposal, with the American Federation of Teachers claiming Trump was in favour of an “arms race” that would “turn schools into militarised fortresses”.

“Anyone who wants guns in schools has no understanding of what goes on inside them – or worse, doesn’t care,” the union’s president Randi Weingarten said.

Summing up the opposition of many lawmakers, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal called the idea of arming teachers “toxic lunacy – an NRA-backed distraction from common sense action”.

Arming teachers is inane and insane – a sure path to reckless and panicky shooting, gun theft, and other deadly dangers. A non-starter in the Senate.

‘Mood to finally do something’

Yesterday, Trump heard wrenching first-hand accounts from bereaved parents and friends, and teens from Parkland who narrowly escaped with their own lives on February 14.

The US Congress has long been deadlocked on the gun debate, accomplishing nothing despite a spate of mass shootings and polls showing that Americans support stricter gun laws by a two-to-one margin.

According to a Gallup tracking poll, 60% of Americans now favor tougher gun sale laws.

Trump has also advocated banning devices that clip on to the back end of a rifle and harness the gun’s recoil, essentially turning a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic one.

“Raise age to 21 and end sale of Bump Stocks!” he tweeted earlier Thursday.

Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue – I hope!

Read: Trump tweets support for NRA – but backs raising gun possession age to 21

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Feb 22nd 2018, 9:59 PM

    ‘He declared “gun free” schools a “magnet” for mass shooters.’

    Not in other countries. Not in this country.

    No assault rifles (or similar) = no mass shooters. It’s quite simple.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:20 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: They do not think…He should really STFU. Moron. How does he think he still has his guns? Politics. That is why. Any other country would have rounded up all those guns by now.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:25 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Now it turns out the school had an armed security guard who said fu#k that for a bag of chips once a psycho with and AR-15 turned up…

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 7:11 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: there is no point in even listening to and trying to rationalise the comments that come from the NRA or the politicians they fund. That’s because they know they are not making a rational argument. It’s a simple money issue. The gun trade is worth a fortune and they don’t want the gravy train to stop. So forget about passing gun control for the time being. It needs to be cut off at the root. Legislation should be passed that no one In public office should be allowed to be funded by the NRA. No politician is funded by cigarette companies or alcohol companies, the NRA should fall into that bracket

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:01 PM

    President Reagan was shot by a gunman even though he was surrounded by trained armed secret service agents..are they saying it wouldnt have happened if they were armed teachers instead. The problem is simple..too many guns out there.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:05 PM

    @Diaspora’d:

    What if Reagan was surrounded by armed school teachers?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:06 PM

    @Diaspora’d: Yes. The ‘good guy with a gun’ myth is believed only by those who confuse movies with real life. Experts know better. From an article in the Guardian:

    ‘Jay Kirell, a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan, said it was “extremely difficult” to shoot under stress. “Cops & soldiers literally get paid to do this & most of them can’t shoot accurately under stress,” Kirell tweeted.

    Daniel Riley, an infantryman in the Marines who attended Columbine high school, guessed how many Marines would have been needed to prevent students being killed at his alma mater during the 1999 attack.

    “Using my knowledge of both, my guess on what it would take to prevent kids from being killed on 4/20/99: at least 20 Armed Marines (And it’s still a maybe),” Riley said. “And that’s somehow ‘common sense’?”’

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:49 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: true. 18% accuracy for nypd when it comes to hitting targets. 18%. They train and need gun reviews every 6 months. 18%

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:56 PM

    @Diaspora’d:

    When JFK was shot, no one blamed the rifle.
    The problem is that US society changed, it went from a high trust society early last century, to the low trust society of today that glorifies gang culture, money and celebrities, from the 80s to today you can just turn music channel and listen to an up and coming hip hop artist, trying to make his name by rapping about smacking his women up and shooting his rivals up, all the while the youth it was aimed at, all see this as cool.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:58 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: very strange that you would call it a myth. Here the Washington Post highlights multiple times a good guy with a gun has come to the rescue. Facts matter.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/03/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/?utm_term=.e1b7cef0741c

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:59 PM

    @Eleanor of Aquitaine: * turn on to a Radio/TV

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:05 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: Your link itself describes such incidents as ‘rare’. More than 33,000 gun deaths in the United States every year. Get a grip.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:53 PM

    @Eleanor of Aquitaine: he was also surrounded by good guys with guns

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 12:41 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Padraig Mally was a good guy with a gun

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:02 PM

    It’s scandalous the amount of power the NRA have on the US political system. The NRA are effectively a lobby group for American gun manufacturers. We had Trump today referring them as ‘great American patriots’ and calling for school teachers to be armed. We complain about our political system but America’s is rotten from the top down

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:07 PM

    @Tweety McTweeter: the NRA is to gun rights what planned parenthood is to abortion rights.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:13 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: hmmm..got that one badly wrong,lad..

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:23 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: wtf?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:23 PM

    @psychiatrist: he’s totally clueless …https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:24 PM

    @psychiatrist: the NRA advocates for gun rights. Planned parenthood advocates for abortion rights. At least the right to bear arms is in the constitution.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:24 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: that makes absolutely zero sense…

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:30 PM

    All I am seeing in response is ad hominem’s.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:39 PM

    @Billy-Bob White:

    You’ve just triggered the regressives with that little beauty, Bravo sir.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:41 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: Planned parenthood doesn’t have anywhere near the financial control over Congress that the NRA does, and abortion has already been pretty much settled by Roe v. Wade for decades anyway (unlike gun control), but in principle you’re not far off.

    It is despicable that any political “advocacy” group just gets to shove millions in legal bribes into the hands of lawmakers in the US to get their way. It’s pay-to-play and it’s a disgraceful system, no matter who is availing of it.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:49 PM

    @Tweety McTweeter: Trump is owned by the NRA, his presidential campaign was funded by over $31 million!

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:52 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: None of the responses to your comment are even close to ad hominem.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:09 PM

    @Felicity Hensen: He won’t know what ‘ad hominem’ means.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:55 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: so you’re saying the solution is to call school shootings late term abortions?

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 1:21 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: It does appear he does not.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:05 PM

    Teachers should not be armed in schools that’s not the way to solve this issue .

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 12:03 AM

    @Kevin: you’re right, that would mean the shooter wouldn’t even have to bring in a gun and risk getting caught with it.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 9:58 PM

    The NRA must be feeling the heat…

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:32 PM

    @Diaspora’d: It’s absurd that the NRA can “donate” to everyone, Democrats, Republicans and anyone else in positions of influence, it’s not even hidden anymore, they just shrug their shoulders as if ‘well everyone does it’.
    Their ridiculous excuse for this is like when told of a ferocious wild animal loose in a school which has killed and injured students, release an even more ferocious wild animal into the school. And these people are supposed to be among the best and brightest diplomats. The mind boggles.
    They seem incapable of realising the simplest logic that pouring more of the risk into a confined space will not and cannot reduce it, nowhere has this ever happened. Instead it’s taken those who have repeatedly been placed in harms way, the students, to stand up and make some of the finest speeches I’ve heard, to say they’re calling this behaviour BS. These kids have given interviews saying CNN have asked them to be interviewed but they refused when expected to ask scripted questions. They may be able to do what no adult has, they seem to be going to try at an rate and it’s worth remembering that in a year or two they’ll be eligible to vote. The NRA can’t bribe these kids so it’ll be interesting to see just what they’ll do to try and stop them, they’ll no doubt try something.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:30 PM

    I am in the USA right now.
    Americans are very safety conscious.. you see the evidence everywhere.. a minibus carrying children, mind steps, safety warning signs,
    It makes no sense that nutters can get hold of guns so easily, and the USA govt is impotent to do anything about it.
    Simply put, Americans love their guns more than their children.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:56 PM

    @Martin Lintzgy: Agreed. One of the best tweets I’ve seen was the suggestion to say children were going to be in utero rather than in school, then maybe certain politicians would change policy and legislation to keep them safe.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:00 PM

    Kinder eggs are banned in the US, assault weapons are welcome. The mind boggles

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:14 PM

    So his argument is Americans are the first line of defence from Americans. Where does that end, suburban civil war?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:26 PM

    Just let what trump said sink in. Just think about it. Give teachers guns. Now once that has sunk in that the president of the United States is leaning this way thank every lucky star not to be living in that despicable country.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:31 PM

    @hard yaka: He’s now proposed to offer bonuses to teachers who agree to be armed

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:37 PM

    @hard yaka: I hear you.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:52 PM

    @hard yaka: It’s not a despicable country by any stretch.

    It’s a country of permanent contradictions. A country obsessed with law & order, yet determined to deregulate access to military weaponry. A country obsessed with democracy abroad yet unable to identify the glaring flaws in their own system.

    A country founded on admirable freedoms and a booming slave trade. America is a really bizarre country, but it’s certainly not a hellhole like you imply. It’s a really mixed up place.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:56 PM

    @hard yaka: “despicable” country. Quit the hyperbole! I live in the US its far from perfect but it wasn’t too long ago that I was defending Ireland’s reputation among Americans here who claimed Ireland was a despicable country based on how it had treated kids in orphanges, Magdelene laundries and babies being thrown in septic tanks. I agree that the gun problem is ridiculous here and I hope like a lot of other likeminded people here it begins to change for the better…but don’t stereotypically write a place off.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:59 PM

    @Diaspora’d: exactly, it’s also worth keeping it in context, the NRA only has 5 million members. Which means their influence is staggeringly disproportionate.

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 3:47 AM

    @Dave O Keeffe: the majority of whom favour background checks!

    https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11767402/nra-guns-daily-show

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 8:21 AM

    @Malachi: Sorry Malachi it’s a hell hole. A place where children’s lives are traded for political favours. Why is there still a conversation 17 kids are dead. It’s crazy. A crazy hell hole.

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 8:27 AM

    @Diaspora’d: All in our history which thankfully we are eventually addressing. No worse than the kkk or the way the natives were treated in north America. Half the people you explain yourself to their grandparents would have agreed with segregation. People in glass houses and all that.
    If a kid walks into a school in Dublin and kills 17 kids our government would act.
    Look at the state of the place over there. Rich get a lot richer a president who has affairs with pornstars schools just get randomly shot up. Imo it’s a despicable country.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:23 PM

    Hypocrisy is an amazing thing. When an Islamic terrorist slaughtered people in New York with a truck last year – Republicans (such as Trump) immediately politicised the tragedy and (correctly) highlighted the stupidity of a visa lottery system for immigration.

    Now, when a tragedy happens and Democrats use it to make a serious point about gun control, that’s ‘unacceptable’ and ‘tasteless’ to these same people described above.

    Politics in the US is based on hypocrisy. It’s based on partisan uselessness. The fact is – politics is MEANT to address things like jihadist murder and school shootings. There’s nothing wrong with “politicising” an issue that actually impacts lives. That’s the entire point of politics (or it should be).

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:25 PM

    @Malachi: An excellent video on this subject demonstrates the obvious hypocrisy from both sides on the issue of “politicisation”.

    https://youtu.be/OeD4FuWkL80

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 12:07 AM

    @Malachi: and something to lighten the mood while also making the NRA look ridiculous https://youtu.be/usgOsNhkKVE

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:23 PM

    guns, God & gays. the three G’s to get the religious right in America into a tizzy but not affordable healthcare, education or world peace

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:01 PM

    Just as big a tosser as trump

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:21 PM

    We keep being told that the majority of gun owners in the US would be happy to see tighter gun controls yet the NRA which represents these people are against it..so which is it ?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:06 PM

    The NRA has approximately 6 million members, which seems like a lot, but it’s not compared to the population’s size. The problem is the power the NRA have over elected officials.

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 3:49 AM

    @Brian O’Loughlin: it represents the gun manufacturers and their profits

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 4:43 AM

    @EillieEs: Foreign (non-US) gun manufacturers from Italy, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia contribute more to the NRA than US gun manufacturers do. A lot of the guns in America are Glocks, Berettas, Sig-Sauer made by foreign manufacturers

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/charts-foreign-gun-companies-laws-nra/

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:25 PM

    Surely, the safety of a countries’ citizens *IS* a political issue!

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:31 PM

    Why not get their teachers to give lessons on firearms to the kids while their at it? Honestly thought I misheard trumps view, nuts, what happens when a staff member becomes the shooter? How can knowone see bringing more guns on campus makes it a higher risk? USA USA USA

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:13 PM

    Wonder do the sit around in a circle and tell their stories about their addiction to guns at Neanderthal Redneck Anonymous

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:26 PM

    Nonsensical Rifle Addiction: https://youtu.be/a-o9pwWUzz0?t=13s

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:21 PM

    A pure evil (four letter word that begins with c and ends with a t and has u and n in it )

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 9:59 PM

    Heartless B**tard

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:21 PM

    If I was to support the NRA I’d argue that if pupils are targeted then pupils should be armed in order to eliminate a threat. Why waiting for a teacher to be around.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:10 PM

    @psychiatrist: He really needs to think about lowering the age that you can buy guns so that they can arm themselves.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:30 PM

    Teacher shòots teenager for having hand below belt.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:31 PM

    On a completely seperate story…the journal wrote about Joanne Lee before she was sadly discovered. There was a few articles here and her siblings were asking people for help to find her. Now there is no news from the Journal at all, but yesterday other papers had updates, so Journal where is your follow up on this story?

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 12:07 AM

    @Anne: depends on what happened and the wishes of the family I guess. I have no idea of any details but it could be that the family want it to be private.

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    Feb 24th 2018, 7:03 PM

    @Anne: Anne there is a big difference in printing ‘updates’ in a paper and putting stuff up on digital publiblication with comment forums – there are a lot of restrictions once there are investigations or an active criminal investigation as I think there is in this case. There is not a lot to say when you have to close the comment section and the case is ongoing. such is the way of liberal laws and legal advice to media publishers like the journal. There likely nothing more to it than that to be honest.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:50 PM

    Another mad logic. It would like saying the only way to stop pollution is by creating more pollution.

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 1:27 AM

    @Fergal Moore: Or the only treatment for alcoholism is more gargle.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:21 PM

    Wow looks like Democrats have realised gun control (confiscation) is a big political loser.

    More here: “Dems want gun control, but worry it could cost them midterms”

    http://thehill.com/homenews/house/374961-dems-want-gun-control-but-worry-it-could-cost-them-midterms?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:57 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: How in the world have you conflated gun control with confiscation?

    Do you understand what the word ‘confiscation’ means? How is strengthening background checks, or banning purchases of assault weapons ‘confiscation’?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:02 PM

    @Malachi: just from watching the townhall last night it was clear that they want to seize all semi-automatic weapons.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:26 PM

    @Billy-Bob White: The only suggestion of weapons seizure in that meeting was the one Rubio himself made about a programme that would allow police to *temporarily* take away weapons from a person who is reported by their immediate family, which they can get back.

    Are you telling me that’s an extremist policy (so extreme that the NRA-funded Rubio is fully supporting it)?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:24 PM

    America is such a messed up country. Messed up….it’s baffling how much love they have for their guns. Guns kill people…daaaa….simple as…

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 12:03 AM

    @Anne: I agree. I have plenty of Catholic cousins in America. And non believing cousins too. They are all armed and “protected”. I dont understand it. I would compare it to the Irish obsession with alcohol. Its part of life and we wont give it up, no matter what damage is done.

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 4:31 PM

    @Sinead Hanley: What does them being Catholic have to do with it??

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:59 PM

    They’re “d”ucking lunatics, Trump supporters and the NRA that is …

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:04 PM

    Why are the FBI and local law enforcement being let off the hook for this colossal fcuk up?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:13 PM

    @Butch Francis:
    The Democrat press don’t want any negative light shining on the agency until Mueller has done their bidding.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:14 PM

    @David Sinclair: one would swear that one guy runs 70% of the accounts on here…would you agree ?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:15 PM

    @David Sinclair: they seem to be the only ones above citicism.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:21 PM

    @Tom Doyle:
    Haven’t a clue Tom though I must admit there is an inordinate amount of Deomcrats/liberals regularly commenting here on a daily basis who never comment on other articles.

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 10:34 PM

    @Butch Francis: Here’s a question for ye.

    If Obama was responsible for not addressing Russian election meddling because he oversees the FBI (as head of the executive), as Trump claimed he was…

    Then isn’t Trump responsible for not addressing the negligence of the FBI on this school shooting, since he’s now head of the executive?

    Or am I missing something?

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    Feb 22nd 2018, 11:10 PM

    @Malachi: Yes, you are missing something, Obama’s skin colour, and party affiliation, that’s what matters to the likes of Butch, and David

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 9:21 AM

    @David Sinclair: The issue is the availability of military grade weapons for dumbass american rednecks yet somehow obama was behind this as well. top trolling sir!

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 12:42 AM

    Its like looking at a drug pusher when you look at him with way way he goes on! More drugs to fix the other drugs. Weird.

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 12:00 AM

    Trump has a serious mental illness. He ought to be locked away for the rest of his life. A complete and utter clown. the NRA must have something big on him.

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 3:57 AM

    @JJ Ryan: yes, they have the $30million they spent on getting him elected

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    Feb 23rd 2018, 7:51 PM

    What a self serving AH!

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