Seventy percent of respondents in the CNN poll released early Sunday support stricter gun laws in the wake of the deadly Florida high school shooting. That percentage is up from 52 percent who said last October that they would favor stronger legislation.
“I know that people are trying to find daylight between President Trump and 5 million law-abiding gun owners," Dana Loesch said on ABC's "This Week. "These are just things that he’s discussing right now.”
The NRA spokesperson stressed during an interview on Sunday that the organization does not support raising the age to purchase firearms to 21, pushing back on comments by President Trump.
“It’s just disgusting. They act like they don’t own these politicians. They still do. It’s a Republican-controlled House, Senate and executive branch. They can get this stuff done,” Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg said on ABC's “This Week."
“I’m very skeptical about that because the vast majority of 18-, 19-, 20-, 21-year-olds are law-abiding citizens who aren’t a threat to anyone,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“In ten years we’re still going to have school shootings unless you propose real legislation, like President Trump has proposed, that would allow teachers to be armed,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said.
Reps. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Brian Mast (R-Fla.) on Sunday agreed Congress should take action to prevent future school shootings in the wake of a mass shooting earlier this month, but were divided on a proposal to arm teachers.
"I believe you have to focus on people that are well-trained, law enforcement that are trained to do this. I want to make sure we have significant law enforcement presence on top of hardening the schools."
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Sunday said he supports the Second Amendment, but must weigh constitutional rights against public safety in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Florida high school.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Sunday he will not resign from his position despite criticism over his department’s handling of the Florida school shooting and red flags about the suspect.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) on Sunday argued a Democratic memo released a day earlier proves the so-called “Steele dossier” was just a “small part" of an application to monitor a former Trump campaign associate in 2016.
Leo Taddeo, the former special agent in charge of the Special Operations/Cyber Division of the FBI's New York office, told AM 970 The Answer's John Catsimatidis that the Russian meddling described in indictments filed by Robert Mueller's special counsel office "really undermined" American democracy.
"I'm starting to really wonder if we are going to see a multi-party system at some point in the future in this country because I don't think either party is answering people's deepest concerns and needs.”
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