Anti-Gun Students Back Away From Pushing Gun Control

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Posted May 14, 2019 8:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

March For Our Lives is unabashedly an anti-gun group. That’s been clear since the group popped up out of the Parkland aftermath. We all know what it stands for and no one is fooling anyone with regard to its purpose.

It wants to destroy the Second Amendment.

However, the Arizona branch of the organization has come to understand that’s not going to happen in that state, so it’s trying something different.

A student-led group that tried to get lawmakers to enact gun control last year is refocusing on something more attainable.

Jordan Harb, a leader of the March for Our Lives movement, said Monday his organization remains convinced that Arizona needs to crack down both on who has access to firearms as well as dealing with the kind of guns that can fire off many rounds.

“I wouldn’t say that we have softened but rather changed our focus on something that’s actually able to be done,” he said. And Harb, a Mesa high school student, said the gun-control measures his group pushed last year — measures the Republican-controlled Legislature did not enact — are “still on our policy agenda.”

What that leaves for the moment are specific and he believes immediate …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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