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Trump: \u2018Gun Doesn\u2019t Do the Shooting, People Do\u2019 Infuriates Antis<\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has slapped anti-gunners with the wet towel of common sense, and it is clear from their reaction that they don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions about the tragic double shooting at Florida State University, which left two people dead and six others injured, the president told reporters, \u201cThese things are terrible, but the gun doesn\u2019t do the shooting \u2014 the people do.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CBS News<\/a>\u00a0noted another Trump reaction, \u201cAs far as legislation is concerned, this has been going on for a long time. I have an obligation to protect the Second Amendment. I ran on the Second Amendment, among many other things, and I will always protect the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Does this mean Trump will henceforth be recognized as the champion of Second Amendment rights? Probably not, since someone, somewhere will undoubtedly complain about something. But it does put him several notches higher than many, if not most, of his predecessors.<\/div>\n
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Writing at\u00a0MSNBC<\/a>, Steve Benen, producer for the Rachel Maddow Show, argued, \u201cI suppose there\u2019s a degree of truth to that \u2014 guns don\u2019t pull their own triggers \u2014 but it\u2019s also true that killers don\u2019t throw their bullets at their victims. Rather, they use weapons, and those weapons can be regulated by the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

This may be one of those, \u201cWell, we\u2019ll see about that\u201d moments, now that Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced the creation of a \u201cSecond Amendment Task Force\u201d which will \u201ccombine department-wide policy and litigation resources to advance President Trump\u2019s pro-gun agenda and protect gun owners from overreach.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In her now-famous<\/span>\u00a0memorandum<\/a>\u00a0to all DOJ employees two weeks ago, AG Bondi stated,\u00a0\u201cFor too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. No more\u2026 President Trump has made protecting the Second Amendment rights a priority for this administration.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That said, the president\u2019s reaction to the FSU shooting, which was allegedly committed by Phoenix Ikner, stepson of a Leon County sheriff\u2019s deputy, using one of her firearms. That gun was recovered at the scene, according to the\u00a0Tallahassee Democrat<\/a>. Ikner is now in custody, having been shot during the incident.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments on the shooting are not unlike something one might hear from any Second Amendment activist. The alleged shooter is the only person responsible for the crime, for which there is presently no known motive. From Trump\u2019s perspective, there is no reason to penalize every Florida gun owner\u2014or all gun owners in the nation\u2014for the murderous act.<\/p>\n

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Producer Benen notes in his essay, \u201cin the recent past, Trump had those same responsibilities (to protect the Second Amendment), and it didn\u2019t stop him from endorsing measures that might\u2019ve saved lives. Now, evidently, he no longer wants to bother with the effort.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Perhaps it was getting shot by a lone sniper in Pennsylvania, and having a second would-be assassin thwarted in Florida, which has caused Trump to re-think some of his previous efforts. It wasn\u2019t a whole nation of armed citizens who did that, but just a couple of nuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But according to\u00a0<\/span>BuzzFeed<\/a>, the left is going nuts over Trump\u2019s observation, and there are ample examples of messages posted on \u201cX\u201d to prove it. Remarks such as, \u201cThank goodness they only shot up a bunch of college kids and no Teslas were hurt.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another person wrote, \u201cTrump reacts to a campus shooting like it\u2019s a rain delay at a golf tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

One person identified as \u201cBrandon\u201d wrote in reaction to a clip of Trump speaking about the tragedy in the Oval Office stated, \u201cnot even thoughts and prayers anymore, just \u2018go f\u2014 yourself.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

And there was this remark from David Hogg, formerly known as a \u201csurvivor\u201d of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, now vice chair of the Democratic National Committee: \u201cMoved on from thoughts and prayers to simply just saying I don\u2019t care. Absolutely disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s reaction is definitely not what the establishment media and the gun prohibition lobby have come to expect from a president, especially his most recent predecessor and former President Barack Obama. Had it been Joe Biden in the White House\u2014or Kamala Harris\u2014one would already see an added push for more gun restrictions, which would not likely have prevented the FSU shooting, had they been in place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil had the proper reaction when he told reporters about his deputy\u2019s gun being used: \u201cUnfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons, and that was one of the weapons found at the scene. We are continuing our investigation as to how that weapon was used and what other weapons perhaps he may have had access to.\u201d<\/p>\n

How that investigation will unfold, and what conclusions it may reach, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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