Marco Rubio and the NRA confronted by shooting survivors, grieving parents at tense town hall

There appeared to be little room for nuance Wednesday evening at CNN's emotionally charged town hall, which brought survivors, lawmakers and a prominent Second Amendment advocate together for the first time since the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Little room for discussing whether a ban on "bump stock" devices - which allow semiautomatic guns to fire faster - could have prevented a 19-year-old from entering the school last week and killing 17 people and wounding dozens more with an AR-15 rifle.
Little room for questioning whether raising the minimum age to purchase that gun could have stopped him.
When Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., brought up a concept that would allow police to temporarily seize a gun-owner's weapons, Stoneman Douglas student Ryan Deitsch told him, "that feels like the first step of a 5k run."
"This issue will take more than a 5k run," Rubio answered.
Judging by their applause and jeers, what the heartbroken parents and classmates of the victims wanted was a commitment to more immediate action.
They wanted a clear directive that guarantees children won't ever fear being murdered in their school's halls.
Many asked Rubio, who has recently become the face of lawmakers' inaction on stricter gun regulations, questions they felt should have clear-cut answers seven days after one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.


Source :  lmtonline