President Donald Trump said he’ll "seriously look" at banning gun silencers after last week’s mass shooting in Virginia.
“Well, I’d like to think about it," Trump said in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. “I’m going to seriously look at it."
While Trump said he didn’t "love" the idea of a ban, he also was unhappy to see the frequency and severity of mass shootings in the U.S.
Trump’s comments represent a potential crack in Republican opposition to stronger gun control measures.
They follow a shooting last week at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in which a gunman killed 12 people. Police recovered a high-capacity magazine and a silencer mechanism from the scene.
Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, said Tuesday he will summon lawmakers back to the state Capitol to consider a package of gun-control legislation. Republicans control the state’s legislature. Northam’s proposals include a ban on silencers and high-capacity magazines.
The Trump administration earlier this year banned bump stocks, devices that let a semi-automatic weapon fire like a machine gun.
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[–] 19046925? ago
Oh, okay, they're about 26% of the total vote.
And about 81% of them went to Trump in 2016.
81% of 26% is…. 21% of the total vote.
Trump got 46% of the total vote.
21 / 46 = 45%.
So 45% of Trump's base was Evangelical.
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But wait a second… Aren't Evangelicals Protestant?
How can ALL Protestants be only 27% of the total vote when Evangelicals are 26% of the total vote?
And Trump only won 60% of the Protestants.
60% of 27% = 16%.
16 / 46 = 34% of Trump's base was Protestants.
Does that make sense?