'Let’s not get too deep into politics too soon,' the acting White House chief of staff said following 2019's deadliest mass shooting thus far.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney wouldn’t say whether President Donald Trump would support stricter gun legislation following the deadly mass shooting at a municipal center in Virginia on Friday, noting that “laws are not going to fix everything.”
But Mulvaney on Sunday suggested it’s too soon to talk politics in the wake of the Virginia Beach shooting and warned that passing stricter gun laws is “never going to make everything perfectly safe.” Mulvaney said Trump has already signed gun reform legislation that bans bump stocks ― gun modifiers that make semi-automatic rifles fire faster ― and strengthens the federal background check registry.
— Meet the Press June 2, 2019 Todd noted that the Virginia gunman used a firearm equipped with a suppressor that muffles the sound of gunfire, known as a “silencer,” during the attack Friday. Gun control advocates say silencers can help shooters evade detection, allowing them to inflict more carnage.Mulvaney said “there are things that the government can do” but that “we’re never going to protect everybody against everybody who is deranged.
Asked if Trump believes it should be harder to get a gun, Mulvaney said the president believes “very firmly” in the Second Amendment, which protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms.
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