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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[–] 19052889? ago
The "get out and vote" meme has fucked us all over.
[–] 19052892? ago
Fair enough.
I will say, I suspect we're going to get an Obongo move this election from the Dems.
Biden is a dead fish. One of the underlings will be the - pun intended - dark horse.
>>13365883
The universal suffrage meme has fucked us over bro.
Its hilarious, I noted to my Boomer father the other day that Mexico has no reason to want to stop the flow of invaders into the country long-term, even if it means short-term losses, because eventually they'll demographically displace sufficiently in California and Texas to just claim them as Mexican territory. It was like he'd never even considered that was a possibility, he started on about how we should make people think about THAT and I just had to chuckle to myself.
Its like talking to plebs at the end of the Empire, except this time most will burn in their homes when Rome falls, because they're about to get a chicken dinner in Fortnite.
[–] 19053449? ago
Yes.