What to say to Lori Alhadeff
By John Cassidy
February 16, 2018
... So far, the reaction .. has been .. pathetic. The President’s initial response consisted of .. tweets, a phone call to .. the N.R.A. favorite who serves as governor of Florida, and a .. vacuous speech delivered from the White House .. Thursday ...
... Why not hold .. meetings today or tomorrow? If Trump couldn't bear to stay in Washington for the holiday weekend, why didn't he invite .. key parties .. to Mar-a-Lago for an emergency get-together? Three of the worst gun massacres in recent American history have occurred within the past five months. Surely .. golf can wait .. one weekend ...
... the staunchly conservative New York Post .. front-page editorial ... listed four modest measures .. Trump could now endorse: a restoration of the Clinton-era ban on assault weapons; raising the legal age to buy guns from eighteen to twenty-one; banning "bump stocks," which enable shooters to turn semiautomatic weapons into ones that fire almost as rapidly as automatic weapons; and killing the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act .. which would allow .. concealed transport of handguns across state lines ...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-does-donald-trump-have-to-say-to-the-parkland-parent-lori-alhadeff
