BTRTN: On Florida and a Simply Hideous Week
Another terrible week in America, and a particularly bad week for Donald Trump and his administration...
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/02/btrtn-on-florida-and-simply-hideous-week.html
"Action now seems unlikely – if not Newtown, if not Las Vegas (bum stocks are still just fine), then why Parkland? But the inflection point of the civil rights’ movement was when Bull Connor turned the attack dogs and fire hoses on the children of Birmingham, Alabama on national television – perhaps the voices of these children can do the same.
Trump himself offered no “Nixon in China” hope that he would lead this charge; his message on Florida contained not a single mention of gun laws (this despite polls that consistently show that the vast majority of Americans of each party favor all sorts of potentially productive gun control legislation, including stronger background checks and closing the gun show loophole.) Without Trump’s leadership, the GOP can stay in its gun-protection hole until it is politically safer to come out...."
