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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[–] 19052405? ago
Like "I want people to come into the country in the largest numbers ever" or "Take away the guns first, worry about due process later"?
[–] 19052425? ago
While switching to a merit system, which he was called racist and aiming to import more white people specifically with.
By all means if someone shot a cop in the face for trying to remove his guns without due process I would fully support it.
And when taken in the context of this or Hillary, who would have had multiple supreme court picks. I don't feel bad for voting the way I did, my vote doesn't matter because I'm in a blue state.
[–] 19052439? ago
So he wants "people to come into the country in the largest numbers ever" and as long as it's "merit" based, you don't mind if spics are replacing whites? Right.
As far as the official numbers are concerned Mexico, today, is presently the number one source of immigration. That is a fact. That fact makes any Republican or Democrat the same. That fact is why saying "voting is useless" is far from retarded, and you have yet to put up any sufficient counterargument to.
Except the quote is from a discussion he had with Democrats on gun-control in general, and bump-stocks specifically so that "if" is completely fucking irrelevant. Are you in favor of the second amendment or not? Because if you aren't then you definitely can't be talking about the value of a vote.
Blue states and red states are the same, as red and blue is the same, as both enact gun control and replace whites. Which both Trump and Hillary are in favor of.