{"id":28230,"date":"2018-02-20T22:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T22:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28230"},"modified":"2018-02-20T22:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T22:55:43","slug":"bump-stocks-way-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28230","title":{"rendered":"Bump stocks on the way out &#8230; it&#8217;s a start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rts1f5to.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28231\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rts1f5to-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rts1f5to-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rts1f5to-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rts1f5to.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re getting somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump today announced plans to get rid of bump stocks, devices used on semi-automatic weapons to turn them into <em>fully automatic<\/em> weapons.<\/p>\n<p>To that I can say only: good show, Mr. President!<\/p>\n<p>Bump stocks came to the fore after the Las Vegas massacre that killed 59 people attending a country music festival. The shooter killed himself after he had turned his rifle into a machine gun that he unloaded on festival attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The latest tragedy involves high school students who were mowed down in Parkland, Fla. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/374722-trump-to-take-steps-to-ban-bump-stocks\">The Hill<\/a>: \u201cWe can do more to protect our children. We must do more to protect our children,\u201d Trump said during the announcement at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we can &#8212; and we must protect our children.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been a bit slow to call attention to ways we can seek solutions to this crisis. The president has directed the Justice Department to propose regulations that would eliminate bump stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I hope that members of Congress are now frightened by threats delivered by gun lobbyists who see bump-stock elimination would somehow run counter to the Second Amendment&#8217;s guarantee of firearm ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Who in the world needs a device that turns semi-auto weapons into killing machines? I have the answer: killers.<\/p>\n<p>The founders never envisioned this perversion of the amendment that they wrote into the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we&#8217;re getting somewhere. Donald Trump today announced plans to get rid of bump stocks, devices used on semi-automatic weapons to turn them into fully automatic weapons. To that I can say only: good show, Mr. President! 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