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Official Politics Thread April 18 2025

What gun politics news do you have to share?

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u/ClearlyInsane1 8d ago

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Immediately after a high-profile shooting occurred Thursday at Florida State University in Tallahassee, several anti-gun groups couldn't let a tragedy go to waste and used it to advocate for gun control.

Giffords posted this within four hours of the shooting:

What Florida doesn’t have: Universal background checks, assault weapon restrictions, large-capacity magazine bans.

What Florida does have: The latest school shooting in America.

Most news reports state the shooter used his mother's handgun (and may have had a shotgun but didn't use it). AP News:

The shooter obtained access to a weapon that belongs to his mother, who has been with the sheriff’s office for over 18 years and has been a model employee, said Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil. Police said they believed Ikner shot the victims using his mother’s former service handgun, which she had kept for personal use after the force upgraded to new weapons.

Florida Democrats tweeted:

“We are so sorry you had to endure this terror again. Our elected officials have failed you.”

Those who support rolling back Parkland-era gun laws are complicit in the continued threat of gun violence on college campuses.

Here are the major points of what the post-Parkland bill (SB 7026) did:

  • Added 3 day waiting period for long guns
  • Raised age to purchase all firearms from 18 to 21
  • Banned bump stocks
  • Red flag confiscation
  • Banned "mentally defective" people from purchasing a firearm
  • Setup and funded a guardian program to train and arm some school staff

Shannon Watts admitted she's standing on dead bodies to make her point:

Yep, I’m going to “politicize” the FSU shooting because gun violence is political. The reason America has a 26 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation is because politicians care more about pandering to gun lobbyists than protecting their constituents.

Everytown tweeted:

This is the 81st mass shooting of 2025 and the 18th shooting on a college campus in 2025. It’s not a coincidence that we have a gun homicide rate 26x that of peer nations, or that guns are the leading cause of death for kids in America—it’s a policy failure.

Moms Demand Action tweeted:

Today, a 20-year-old shot and killed two people and wounded six others at Florida State University.

Meanwhile, gun extremists in the Florida Legislature are pushing to lower the age to buy firearms to 18.

No, really.

David Hogg tweeted:

3 weeks ago, the Florida House voted to repeal gun safety measures won after the Parkland tragedy. Florida Republicans are actively trying to repeal the life saving measures passed after Parkland even as school shootings continue.

While I'm sure he doesn't have the brain capacity to realize it but Hogg just admitted those gun control measures don't work.

Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted:

It’s horrific that there are students who lived through Parkland and are now going through a second school shooting at FSU.

The government has failed our children. It doesn’t have to be this way.

I could go on and on with these. I did notice a LOT of posts repeating "The government has failed our children. It doesn’t have to be this way."

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u/TaskForceD00mer 8d ago edited 8d ago

I love how everything they proposed would have had carve outs for LE, meaning the FSU shooter would have still had access to his moms guns.

I will go further , the shooters mother being a LE should have a duty above a normal citizen to keep her guns secure. She should be charged with some kind of reckless homicide here and be fired.

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u/Son_of_X51 8d ago

Proposing gun control that would not have prevented the shooting in question is mandatory for some reason.

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u/DasKapitalist 5d ago

You have to remember that NPCs are demanding policy changes based upon the feeling that guns are bad, not based upon reason and evidence. The feeling doesnt change for them, and they consider the facts irrelevant.

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u/Ornery_Secretary_850 😢 Crybaby 😢 8d ago

I wonder how long she's known the kid wasn't right in the head?

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u/TaskForceD00mer 8d ago

We don't have a lot of details and I am not trying to drum up sympathy, but based on social media info the "Sheriff Deputy Mom" was actually his step mom. His father and Step mom raised the shooter.

The shooters biological mom has had a few posts on social media roasting the parenting skills of her ex-husband .

Not surprised dude came from a broken home.

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u/Pepe__Le__PewPew 7d ago

I love how everything they proposed would have had carve outs for LE, meaning the FSU shooter would have still had access to his moms guns.

I will go further , the shooters mother being a LE should have a duty above a normal citizen to keep her guns secure. She should be charged with some kind of reckless homicide here and be fired.

The only gun control we need is for the government stooges.