{"id":31535,"date":"2018-02-22T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31535"},"modified":"2018-02-22T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:18:56","slug":"the-republican-reich-is-the-only-obstacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/the-republican-reich-is-the-only-obstacle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Reich Is the Only Obstacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost the entire nation wants common sense gun control to make America safer from mass shootings.  Most Republican voters want it.  Independent voters and politicians want it.  Democratic voters and politicians want it.  The only ones who don’t want it are the Republican base, that is, the extremist minority of Republican voters, virtually all Republican politicians, and gun manufacturers.  <\/font><\/p>\n

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An anguished father mourning his 18-year-old daughter vented his anger and pleaded for safer schools.<\/p>\n

A fear-stricken student who watched classmates die last week<\/a> wept openly as he called for banning assault weapons.<\/p>\n

A mother who lost her 6-year-old son in a school shooting just over fiveyears ago<\/a> warned that more parents would lose their children if President Trump did not act, adding, \u201cDon\u2019t let that happen on your watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

One by one at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, survivors of school shootings and family members of victims shared their stories and their calls to action. The extraordinary public exchange with the president gave voice to an intensely emotional debate over how to respond to the latest gun massacre in an American school.<\/p>\n

A week after a gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and prompting a rash of student-driven lobbying for new gun restrictions, Mr. Trump met for more than an hour with grieving people in search of solutions. News cameras captured the unusual listening session, revealing an emotional give-and-take between a president and private citizens that is typically shielded from public view.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump used the event to pitch his own ideas about how to prevent such debacles in the future, polling the group about whether they supported allowing teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons, an idea he said could have halted the carnage in Parkland…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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That was yesterday.  This morning, Trump was tweeting the NRA’s praises<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow<\/a> reported on this story and discussed it with Nicole Hockley of Sandy Hook Promise<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n