Higher age limit for purchase of guns is not needed
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More important is the Obama policies that led to not filing charges against students who violate the law. Without this policy, the shooter would never have passed a background check to buy the weapons. The policy was an attempt by schools to with the help of law enforcement to cook the books on their discipline problems.
If the FBI paid more attention to their tip line they could have stopped him. If the local sheriff's deputies had been more aggressive in responding to the shooting lives could have been saved. The military thinks 18 year-olds are responsible enough to use rifles or more lethal weapons. But they do screen for mental health issues.
NRA spokeswoman pushes back on Trump idea of raising age for buying semiautomatic riflesOf all the factors that played into the mass murders at the Florida school, age had little to do with it. The shooter had mental health issues and law enforcement agencies from top to bottom failed to do their job.
Dana Loesch dismissed proposals to raise the age to purchase a semiautomatic weapon to 21, saying a higher age limit is something that President Trump is only “discussing” and has not formally backed.
More important is the Obama policies that led to not filing charges against students who violate the law. Without this policy, the shooter would never have passed a background check to buy the weapons. The policy was an attempt by schools to with the help of law enforcement to cook the books on their discipline problems.
If the FBI paid more attention to their tip line they could have stopped him. If the local sheriff's deputies had been more aggressive in responding to the shooting lives could have been saved. The military thinks 18 year-olds are responsible enough to use rifles or more lethal weapons. But they do screen for mental health issues.
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