Millions want gun change but Trump’s action pledge stalls
teachers failed to return home from their Texas school after a 17-yearold walked through the door with a shotgun and a .38 handgun and open fired.
It took the number of school shootings to 288 in the States since January 1, 2009, 57 times as many shootings as the other six G7 countries combined.
As the injured were still being cared for, it wasn’t long before the shooting elicited the predictable round of phoney thoughts and prayers from pro-gun politicians.
All the National Rifle Associationloving elected officials may not have pulled the trigger personally, but they helped put the gun into the hands of the killer who did.
Yet they all, again, had the nerve to send their thoughts and prayers to those now mourning the loss of their loved ones, despite their continued lack of action.
It left me wondering what exactly are they praying for? After all they vote against gun control.
Surely it would be better to send strict gun control legislation to the house to be voted on instead of sending sickening prayers and meaningless thoughts.
But worse than all of the cowards who refused to do anything is the gutless megalomaniac in the White House who responded to last Friday’s shooting by saying they have been going on for too long as though it’s only the fault of other administrations.
Trump had a chance in February to bring about real meaningful change following the horrific Parkland shooting in Florida.
Millions came out in favour of new stricter laws but Trump was simply too scared to upset the pro-gun lobby.
He had promised action “very soon” while saying he was not afraid of the NRA, but like so many of the pledges he had made it was nothing more than a false promise.
The measures had included raising the minimum age to buy a long gun from 18 to 21 but he reneged on his pledge complaining “there’s not much political support” as he toadied back to the NRA. Trump and his cowardly comrades should save their thoughts and prayers for their own blood-soaked souls.
Politicians in Washington have made it clear they have no desire to address this issue, no desire to stand up to the NRA and certainly no desire to stop treating such deaths simply as collateral damage.
At the moment, every pupil in Trump’s America can assume that one day a fellow student could well show up with a gun and an appetite for death and there is nothing Washington will do to prevent it. THE historic diplomatic encounter planned for three weeks from now between Donald Trump and North Korean despot Kim Jong-un appears in doubt.
The President said this week: “There’s a very substantial chance that it won’t work out. That doesn’t mean that it won’t work out over a period of time, but it may not work out for June 12.”
It was the clearest indication to date that the audacious summit Trump agreed to in March may be at risk.
Only last week, North Korea adopted a harsh new tone and threatened to withdraw from the meeting, which is due to occur in Singapore.
After being conciliatory for several weeks, Kim has started pushing back against the States, exactly as experts predicted he would. Of course, all countries have a motive in playing along with the fiction that Trump has achieved a Korean breakthrough – it might stop him from starting a war.
But it’s one thing to humour the President, and another to let his egotistical power hampered by his minimally competent leadership, to warp reality.
We all want to be open-minded, but a salesmen selling a con should never be given the benefit of the doubt. Talk of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize is like nominating Ronald McDonald for a prize for cutting world obesity.