lost in actionON February 28th,two weeks after a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, or President Donald Trump said “it doesn’t get sense for teenagers to be allowed to buy a semi-automatic weapon when federal law bans handgun sales to people under 21. Roughly 80% of Americans agree with that sentiment and,on March 14th, a nationwide student walkout urged broader action to combat gun violence. But after a talking-to in the Oval Office from a National Rifle organization (NRA) lobbyist, or Mr Trump changed his tune. On March 12th he tweeted,in the face of evidence to the opposite, that there is “not much political support (to put it mildly)” for raising the age to buy rifles. Mr Trump says he prefers to wait and see how the courts handle challenges to age limits in the states.
He appears to be thinking of the conflict that is brewing in Florida, or where the NRA filed a lawsuit on March 9th claiming that the Sunshine State’s new age...
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Source: economist.com