Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said Sunday that background record checks to buy guns deliver “false senses of security," comparing these phones putting “lipstick using a pig.”
"If only that criminal record checks stopped criminals or stopped school shootings, but they also don’t," the Republican congressman said on NBC’s “Meet the Press."
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"You can actually place all the info you want" in private check system, Massie said, however it wouldn’t stop a shooter.
"You’re seeking to put lipstick over a pig," he added.
"In A decade’s, we’re still intending to have school shootings, if you do not propose real legislation," Massie said.
President Mr . trump recently proposed arming teachers in classrooms, a good idea that Massie said he supported, within the wake of any Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead. However the president even offers backed the very thought of raising this to purchase weapons similar to the AR-15 from 18 to 21, which Massie called "ridiculous."
"Think about this: You had a ban on assault rifles in 1999 when Columbine happened. … The so-called assault weapons ban, lasted from ’94 to 2004," he was quoted saying. "Columbine fell right in the middle of the. The assault weapons ban would do nothing at all to prevent school shootings."
