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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[–] 19053443? ago
Not at present, no. There are many acceptable possibilities, but none that presently exist as far as I am aware.
Thought has crossed my mine once or twice, but its a complex affair.
Lets use an example.
Say you just make another /pol/ board on this site.
It will never be 'real' /pol/ - thats one of the narratives that will be used to attack it, at least.
Then you'll have shilling, specifically from the kind of people who have taken over THIS board (aka board and site admins, and those they've been debauched by), which you'll have to contend with which will require regular moderation. Any moderator activities which can potentially be viewed as untoward will be mercilessly harped upon by the same people doing the aforementioned shilling, and use of VPNs will further the appearance of consensus perspective as to your board being shit.
Overt banning will be used to tattle on you to the site admins.
Not to dissuade you, mind you, just to give you an idea of what you'll be up against. I had considered the prospect myself a time or two, but my schedule simply wouldn't allow me to be regularly engaged in the kind of moderation a board like that would need, nor to spend the time getting to know people sufficiently to trust them as moderators on such a board.