National Carry AcademySEVERAL RETAILERS PULLING FIREARMS & RELATED MERCHANDISE FROM STORES IN RESPONSE TO FLORIDA SCHOOL SHOOTING
March 18, 2019
In the wake of the February 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School I Parkland Florida where a former student killed 17 students with an AR-15 rifle, politicians are being pressured to act on gun control measures and corporations are cutting ties with the NRA and trying to distance themselves from firearms.
In a press release February 28, 2018, Walmart stated that they will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than age 21. They are also removing items from their website resembling assault-style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys.
“We take seriously our obligation to be a responsible seller of firearms and go beyond Federal law by requiring customers to pass a background check before purchasing any firearm.”
According to a recent press release, Dick’s Sporting Goods and it’s affiliated Field & Stream stores will stop selling all “assault-style rifles” and all NRA- branded merchandise in its stores.
A New York Times article quoted Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack as stating that he is “calling on elected officials to enact what it called “common sense gun reform by passing laws to raise the minimum age to purchase guns to 21, to ban assault-type weapons and so-called bump stocks, and to conduct broader universal background checks that include mental-health information and previous interactions with law enforcement.”
While Dick’s CEO stated that they support the Second Amendment to the US constitution, which protects the right to keep and bear arms, “gun violence is an epidemic that’s taking the lives of too many people”.
As is usually the case after a shooting incident in a public place, the very first response is to implement more gun control measures. Some gun control measures make sense. It probably is not prudent to be selling assault rifles in a department store. The individuals who would actually have need of an assault rifle should have to go through a licensed gun dealer. Increasing the legal age that an individual should be allowed to own a gun should probably follow the legal age that they can vote, since that is when they are considered an adult citizen in the U.S.
However, as is also usually the case in a shooting incident, with the focus being diverted to gun control and removing guns from public citizens, the questions of why the authorities that could have prevented the shooting did not do their job. After the shooting incident in Parkland, FL sources found that the FBI and the local police failed to follow up on multiple tips about Nicolas Cruz, the shooter in the incident. The school had an armed deputy on the school grounds at the time of the shooting, but her stayed outside of the school building while the attack took place and did nothing to intervene.
Florida’s State house and Senate members will be reviewing proposed bills related to firearms such as raising the legal age to buy rifles from 18 to 21 and giving police more control to seize weapons from mentally disturbed people. They will also be reviewing a voluntary program to arm school staff and teachers, who would be trained by law enforcement and allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Now those measures make sense.
SEVERAL RETAILERS PULLING FIREARMS & RELATED MERCHANDISE FROM STORES IN RESPONSE TO FLORIDA SCHOOL SHOOTING
March 18, 2019
In the wake of the February 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School I Parkland Florida where a former student killed 17 students with an AR-15 rifle, politicians are being pressured to act on gun control measures and corporations are cutting ties with the NRA and trying to distance themselves from firearms.
In a press release February 28, 2018, Walmart stated that they will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than age 21. They are also removing items from their website resembling assault-style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys.
“We take seriously our obligation to be a responsible seller of firearms and go beyond Federal law by requiring customers to pass a background check before purchasing any firearm.”
According to a recent press release, Dick’s Sporting Goods and it’s affiliated Field & Stream stores will stop selling all “assault-style rifles” and all NRA- branded merchandise in its stores.
A New York Times article quoted Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack as stating that he is “calling on elected officials to enact what it called “common sense gun reform by passing laws to raise the minimum age to purchase guns to 21, to ban assault-type weapons and so-called bump stocks, and to conduct broader universal background checks that include mental-health information and previous interactions with law enforcement.”
While Dick’s CEO stated that they support the Second Amendment to the US constitution, which protects the right to keep and bear arms, “gun violence is an epidemic that’s taking the lives of too many people”.
As is usually the case after a shooting incident in a public place, the very first response is to implement more gun control measures. Some gun control measures make sense. It probably is not prudent to be selling assault rifles in a department store. The individuals who would actually have need of an assault rifle should have to go through a licensed gun dealer. Increasing the legal age that an individual should be allowed to own a gun should probably follow the legal age that they can vote, since that is when they are considered an adult citizen in the U.S.
However, as is also usually the case in a shooting incident, with the focus being diverted to gun control and removing guns from public citizens, the questions of why the authorities that could have prevented the shooting did not do their job. After the shooting incident in Parkland, FL sources found that the FBI and the local police failed to follow up on multiple tips about Nicolas Cruz, the shooter in the incident. The school had an armed deputy on the school grounds at the time of the shooting, but her stayed outside of the school building while the attack took place and did nothing to intervene.
Florida’s State house and Senate members will be reviewing proposed bills related to firearms such as raising the legal age to buy rifles from 18 to 21 and giving police more control to seize weapons from mentally disturbed people. They will also be reviewing a voluntary program to arm school staff and teachers, who would be trained by law enforcement and allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Now those measures make sense.