By Peter Frost in Britain:
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
School shootings: a US epidemic
PETER FROST compares school shootings on both sides of the Atlantic
DONALD TRUMP has been short and sweet in his response to the tragic shooting in Parkland Florida that saw 17 students and teachers gunned down by a right-wing white supremacist.
First he repeated his long-held opinion that it isn’t yet time to discuss gun control. That opinion is probably much to do with the huge stream of funding coming to him and his supporters from the National Rifle Association (NRA).
They are busy campaigning to arm and train teachers in gun use. They say more guns in schools would make schools safer.
Their slogan is, “The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
Trump yesterday in a White House meeting with massacre…
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