A survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., was “not impressed” by provisions in a massive budget bill to improve a federal background check system and the Trump administration’s move to ban bump stocks.
“I was not impressed at all,” said Cameron Kasky, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed on Feb. 14. “It is important to make the school safer but this doesn’t just happen in schools.”
Kasky spoke on “Fox News Sunday” the day after the March for Our Lives, where hundreds of thousands of people marched on Washington and across the globe to call for stricter gun control measures.
Kasky said he would like to see a ban on assault weapons and raise the age for buying guns from 18 to 21.
“I want to see an assault weapons ban, I want to see a high-capacity magazine ban,” he said. “The age has to be raised to 21. These are important issues and the fact that in the bill they don’t say the word gun once.”
He gave his own state a C minus after the state passed a bill that raised the age to buy weapons to 21 amid other provisions.
The students also took aim at President Trump walking back comments that he wanted to take away a person’s guns without due process and hinted at an assault weapons ban.
Kasky said Trump had a meeting with the NRA and then backed down.
Student Delaney Tarr also said on Fox News Sunday “to call it a coincidence seems like a bit of a stretch. It reads sketchy to me.”
