Headline Roundup • March 12th, 2018
White House Drops Call to Raise Guns Age Limit
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Donald Trump said he would wait for the courts to rule before acting on raising the minimum age for some gun purchases, putting off one of the more contentious gun safety measures he had backed after the latest U.S. school shooting.
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Plan would fund training for armed teachers in wake of Florida school shooting but omits President Trump’s call to raise age limit for buying guns
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Trump said Monday ”things are moving rapidly” when it comes to raising the minimum age for buying certain guns, but said he is letting the issue play out in the courts before taking action himself.
Trump says gun policy with 82 percent support has 'not much political support (to put it mildly).'
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Donald Trump is trying to defend his "school safety" plan, which doesn’t call for an age limit on assault weapon purchases (but does support arming teachers). Predictably, his claims about those age limits are all about deflecting and obfuscating (or, to be less polite, are full of crap).
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