[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #462 Stormy actions

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President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled budget would cut millions of dollars from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which gun dealers use to verify if someone is banned from buying a gun before selling it to them.

Buried on Page 719 of his fiscal year 2019 budget, released Monday, the president calls for cuts to the National Criminal Records History Improvement Program and the NICS Act Record Improvement Program. Both provide federal grants to states to help them improve their reporting of criminal records and protection orders to the national database for background checks, including domestic violence records.

Mass shootings are now a regular occurrence in the country ― and so is Congress’ inaction on it. There have already been 30 mass shootings and 18 school shootings in 2018. Republican leaders in Congress routinely offer “thoughts and prayers” in response to each shooting but don’t follow up with any policy changes aimed at stemming gun violence.

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If Americans want gun control legislation in the wake of Wednesday's mass shooting at a Florida high school, they need to vote Republicans out of office, a former GOP lawmaker said.

"Republicans will never do anything on gun control," former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) said on CNN Wednesday.

Jolly said Republicans refuse to enact any gun control laws, even after a member of Congress was shot at a baseball practice last year.

"The idea of gun policy in the Republican party is to try to get a speaking slot at the NRA and prove to that constituency that you are further right than generations past on guns," Jolly said.

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Florida Republicans Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Rick Scott were swift to condemn the horrific school shooting in their state on Wednesday afternoon, offering prayers after a gunman killed at least 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Scott called for "thoughts and prayers" as news of the shooting emerged, and Rubio sent off a tweet calling the shooting an event "you pray never comes."

But both men have a history of coziness with gun advocates, receiving "A+" ratings and endorsements from the National Rifle Association ahead of their respective elections in 2014 and 2016. The distinction is reserved "for legislators who have excellent voting records on Second Amendment issues and who have vigorously fought to promote and defend the right to keep and bear arms."

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 15:42 schreef Tchock het volgende:
Ik haal deze maar weer van stal. Het lukt me niet meer om niet-cynisch te reageren op die shootings.

Thougts & Prayers: The Game
https://www.thoughtsandprayersthegame.com

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 15:02 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Die benzinebelasting is een typisch voorbeeld van hoe deze regering de kleine man een vette worst voor houdt maar intussen keihard van achteren pakt. Anderhalf biljoen aan belastingverlaging voor de rijken maar jan met de pet mag extra dokken voor de benzine die hij nodig heeft om bij zijn drie verschillende banen te komen.

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 16:53 schreef Iwanius het volgende:

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En dan durven sommigen landgenoten,nog steeds het als het "beloofde" land te zien waar ze betere kansen krijgen dan hier in Nederland.

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So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 18:21 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Het stuk vreten geeft de slachtoffers in Florida nog even een trap na.

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 18:25 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Sowieso nogal vreemd. De voornaamste 'hints' waren dat hij nogal graag met wapens poseerde op Instagram. Dat doet een significant deel van zijn eigen achterban ook maar al te graag.

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The leader of a white nationalist militia says Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group and participated in paramilitary drills in Tallahassee.

Jordan Jereb told The Associated Press on Thursday that his group, the Republic of Florida, wants Florida to become its own white ethno-state. He said his group holds “spontaneous random demonstrations” and tries not to participate in the modern world.

Jereb said he didn’t know Cruz personally and that “he acted on his own behalf of what he just did and he’s solely responsible for what he just did.”

He also said he had “trouble with a girl” and he believed the timing of the attack, carried out on Valentine’s Day, wasn’t a coincidence.

Nineteen-year-old Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the shooting.

AP

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NeilSteinberg twitterde op donderdag 15-02-2018 om 04:50:42 I too am sending out thoughts and prayers: thoughts that Congress is a bunch of cowards, and prayers that we'll finally throw the bums out of office and elect representatives with the guts to enact the sane gun laws most citizens in our country are begging to see put in place. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 19:19 schreef Re het volgende:
En hij schijnt dit jaar zijn geweer gekocht te hebben, na het opheffen van de mental illness check door meneer tweet

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 19:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Ben ik overigens de enige die denkt dat Donald al een tijdje niet meer zijn eigen tweets schrijft?