Trump The Brave Talks At CPAC2018 About Scot Peterson
President Donald Trump suggested that Scot Peterson (the armed guard who was on duty during the school shooting in Parkland, Florida) was a “coward” or “didn’t react properly”. What the President didn’t say is that the NRA’s long standing credo of “a good guy with a gun” thwarting a bad guy with a gun failed. Again. The New York City socialite turned right-wing, conservative Second Amendment enthusiast was speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in front of a very pro-Trump crowd. Calling a “good guy with a gun” who failed to act under fire a “coward” is a typical Trump applause line, but it does nothing to address the greater issues that need to be addressed if we want to prevent future mass murders of children. We will certainly discuss this on the next episode of the Whiskey Congress podcast. I am not suggesting that we will have the answers, but we won’t be afraid to ask the relevant questions. Please email jim@whiskeycongress.com if you want to share your thoughts or suggest topics for our next show.
WASHINGTON — Urging the arming of many teachers and school security guards, President Donald Trump said Friday the armed officer who didn’t stop the gunman who carried out last week’s Florida massacre was either a “coward” or “didn’t react properly under pressure.”
Departing the White House for the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump told reporters that “when it came time to get in there and do something,” Florida deputy Scot Peterson “didn’t have the courage or something happened.”
“He certainly did a poor job, there’s no question about that,” Trump said. He repeated his criticism at the conference.
Long supported by the National Rifle Association, the president has sought to maintain his backing among gun rights activists even as he has called for strengthening background checks and raising the minimum age for purchasing semi-automatic rifles in the wake of the mass killing.
Turning to this year’s elections, Trump told conservative activists at CPAC that Republicans must not be complacent in the fall midterms, warning of terrible consequences if Democrats take control of Congress.
Trump predicted Democrats would “take away those massive tax cuts,” referencing to his signature tax law signed in December, “and they will take away your Second Amendment.” Trump then surveyed the audience of conservatives on which issue was more important to them, and listened as the crowd cheered loudly in support of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Basking in the glow of some of his most hard-core supporters, Trump argued that his administration has kept his campaign promises, boasting as he often does that he “had the most successful first year in the history of the presidency.”
