Teenage shooting survivor shreds Trumps hollow speech on national TV

[RockaFowler]

https://shareblue.com/teenage-shooting-survivor-shreds-trumps-hollow-speech-on-national-tv/#.WoXUdJl8zNQ.twitter

Trump’s speech Thursday, day after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, was immediately panned by one of the students who survived the attack.

Emerging from his self-imposed exile after the shooting, Trump spoke for a few minutes from a prepared text.

He offered no solution to the plague of gun violence, and simply mouthed the phrase “mental health” without proposing policies to help America.

He told students they should go to their teachers if they have concerns about violence but never even said the phrase “gun violence.”

Isabella Gomez, a sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, immediately took Trump to task.

“He said that if something’s happening, go to your teacher. What could our teachers do in that situation rather than save themselves just as we were?” Gomez asked.

“I feel like he really needs to take into consideration all this gun control. There’s no reason that a kid, 19 years old, that’s been investigated already and not even a year ago, being able to purchase a AR-15 in Broward County, right here, and he only got expelled. They didn’t even put him into a hospital or nothing for like a mental health. Nothing.”

We don't want that idiot in Palm Beach. I know for sure none of them want him in Parkland. We don't need your hollow "Thoughts & Prayers".

[Iliyah]

1. And the children shall lead.

[world wide wally]

4. I sure hope so because adult Republicans won't

[MadCrow]

2. From the mouths of babes

[The Genealogist]

3. This student is obviously smarter than dotard

Now will Trump come out and do one of his infantile Twitter attacks on her?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. That Description Applies To My Dog

No offense intended toward Ms. Gomez, who seems a quite aware and bright young person. But, you're setting a pretty low bar for her.

[Downtown Hound]

7. Well clearly but give her some credit

Saying anybody is smarter than Dotard is setting the bar pretty low.

[Downtown Hound]

8. Fake victim! Sad.

[spanone]

6. Trump repealed rule to block mentally ill people from buying guns

President Trump tweeted Thursday that Americans need to be more vigilant about people with mental illness to prevent school shootings — but a year ago this month he revoked an Obama-era rule that would have blocked some mentally ill people from buying guns.

“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!” the president wrote.

But Trump, at the urging of the National Rifle Association, quashed a policy that would have forced Social Security officials to report records of some mentally ill people getting benefits to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NPR reported at the time.

People who had been deemed mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs — about 75,000 people — would have been covered by the policy.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/15/trump-repealed-rule-to-block-mentally-ill-people-from-buying-guns/