Trump said to the NRA (after they donated over $21 million toward his campaign), “You have a true friend and champion in the White House.” He also said, “You came through for me, and I am going to come through for you.”
And he did — one of his first actions after taking office was to revoke President Obama’s gun control regulation that required the SSA to identify and report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) individuals who are unable to work because of severe mental impairment and can’t manage their own Social Security financial benefits, and therefore were ineligible to buy guns. In other words, even if you have a severe mental impairment, you can now buy a gun.
On a recent CNN television interview,
Mark Bogan, Vice Mayor of Broward County,
FL, called President Trump a hypocrite for planning to meet
with families of the school shooting victims.
“Him coming here is absolutely absurd, and he’s a hypocrite.
How can you come here and talk about how horrible it is when you support these laws?
This is a man who supports teenagers and other people [being able to] to purchase assault weapons … and then comes down here and wants to act as though this is horrible and shouldn’t happen, but goes back to Washington and supports” nypost
Please email Mr. Bogan, and thank him for his honesty and request that he try to do more television interviews that make this same point. It could have real impact on generating more interest in common sense gun regulation. His email address is mbogan@broward.org
Below are more links about the above information. I hope you will join me in emailing Mr. Bogan to encourage him to interview with other media sources and tell it like it is.
Thank you.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/04/28/trump-tells-nra-you-have-a-true-friend-and-champion-in-white-house.html
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/28/trump-nra-crowd-you-came-through-me/
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-set-overturn-guns-mental-health-regulation-557237
https://nypost.com/2018/02/16/vice-mayor-of-broward-county-calls-trump-a-hypocrite/
Support Mark Bogan:
mbogan@broward.org