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Sen. Amy Klobuchar took to Twitter this week to make a well-worn talking point about gun control following the horrific and tragic massacre of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday.
“If 18-year-olds can’t buy alcohol they sure shouldn’t be able to buy an AK-47. CHANGE THE LAW,” she tweeted on Thursday.
If 18-year-olds can’t buy alcohol they sure shouldn’t be able to buy an AK-47. CHANGE THE LAW.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) May 26, 2022
PJ Media’s Matt Margolis responded:
Right off the bat, we can dismiss her talking point as absurd.
Democrats are always telling us that younger people are mature enough for more responsibility. Last year, a majority of House Democrats voted to lower the voting age to sixteen. Democrats think minors should be able to obtain abortions without parental consent. They also think four-year-olds can make life-altering decisions about gender transitioning.
While it’s true that 18-year-olds can’t buy alcohol, maybe they should be able to. We trust them enough that we let them join the military. If 18-year-olds aren’t mature enough to buy and own firearms, why are they mature enough to be entrusted to defend our country?
Others also ripped the Minnesota Democrat’s lame talking point online.
Moronic, tone-deaf, tired, well-worn, inane, devoid of reason, hypocritical, thoughtless, asinine…pick your descriptor.
But in fact, when Dems want to let 4 y/o’s decide their gender and make 18-year-olds fight their wars, what point on guns from any of them is valid?
— Dr. Jonny Republic If You Can Keep It 🇺🇸 (@JonDougherty10) May 27, 2022
By that logic… if 18 year olds can’t buy a firearm, then they shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the military either…
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) May 27, 2022
Should he be allowed to fight in your proxy wars, Amy.
— THE Red-Headed libertarian™ (@TRHLofficial) May 27, 2022
What is an assault weapon?
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 27, 2022
Democrats: an 18 year old isn’t mature enough to buy rifles.
Me, at 18 years old, in Fallujah, Iraq. pic.twitter.com/nLrvOJKVUk
— MrsEndonoz (@EndonozMrs) May 27, 2022
Don’t tell me an 18 year old can’t be mature enough to handle rifles when I spent those years toting the “scary assault rifles” along with many others my age. Also, STOP SAYING ASSAULT RIFLE! There’s no such thing! All guns will assault you if a person uses them to do that!
— MrsEndonoz (@EndonozMrs) May 27, 2022
Absolutely.
Government should not be telling people who are old enough to be military vets that they can’t drink alcohol.
— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) May 27, 2022
Meanwhile, Republican senators were outraged on Thursday after Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) blocked a vote on GOP-sponsored legislation aimed at bolstering school security.
Fox News reports:
After the horrific mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., asked for the Luke and Alex School Safety Act to be passed by unanimous consent.
The bill, named after Parkland, Florida, shooting victims Luke Hoyer and Alex Schachter, would require the Department of Homeland Security to establish a “Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety Best Practices” for use by state and local educational and law-enforcement agencies, institutions of higher education, health professionals, and the public.
In addition, the legislation would require DHS to “collect clearinghouse data analytics, user feedback on the implementation of best practices and recommendations identified by the clearinghouse, and any evaluations conducted on these best practices and recommendations.”
The clearinghouse, which is already set up at SchoolSafety.gov, would be codified into law upon the bill’s passage.
But Schumer took to Twitter to claim that the legislation “could see more guns in schools.”
Johnson later tweeted: “Not surprising that the Democrat leader would lie about the bill he blocked that parents of Parkland victims have been trying to pass for years. Dems aren’t looking for solutions, they want wedge issues that they hope will keep them in power. Sick.”
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., a co-sponsor of the bill, took to Twitter to rip Schumer as “a liar and a hack.”
“This was a bill I worked on with the parents of Parkland victims. It’s named after them. You’re a liar and a hack,” he wrote.
Another co-sponsor, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted: “The truth: Schumer blocked a bipartisan bill [that] makes the school safety clearinghouse schoolsafety.gov permanent because radical left wing activists oppose it.”
Not surprising that the Democrat leader would lie about the bill he blocked that parents of Parkland victims have been trying to pass for years.
Dems aren’t looking for solutions, they want wedge issues that they hope will keep them in power. Sick. https://t.co/f4zbNb03ey
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) May 26, 2022
This was a bill I worked on with the parents of Parkland victims. It’s named after them. You’re a liar and a hack. https://t.co/WKFMLTjT4x
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) May 25, 2022
The truth: Schumer blocked a bipartisan bill the makes the school safety clearinghouse https://t.co/rvfUl0d7sA permanent because radical left wing activists oppose it https://t.co/V0Lx9GwRx4
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 25, 2022