Posted on 06/21/2015 4:46:51 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
So Donald Trump — New York’s charismatic multibillionaire businessman — has thrown his hat into the 2016 presidential ring.
While many question his presence in the race, 2016 may be the year in which America is in desperate need of a suave, successful businessperson like Trump — or former HP CEO Carly Fiorina — to solve what ails our economy.
(full story here) http://nypost.com/2015/06/20/donald-trumps-resume-backs-his-run-for-president/
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Donald Trump, is really running for President this time.
:D
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Oh, excuse me.
This sort of seems like a near-duplicate of a post from yesterday. Admin Moderator can you please cancel this post?
Sorry about this.
Mebbie he’s a guy who is rich enough to be untouchable, and with enough balls to ask the right questions.
Telling some universal home truths, that EVERYBODY knows, but NOBODY TELLS, a very good sign. It also betrays his opponents as a bunch of wimps.
—America is in desperate need of a suave, successful businessperson like Trump — or former HP CEO Carly Fiorina — to solve what ails our economy.—
“...and greed - mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.” -
Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987
Go, Donald!
Quote “The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions. I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun. With today’s Internet technology we should be able to tell within seventy-two hours if a potential gun owner has a record.”
Thats not someone that gets my vote…says the man who has paid BODY GUARDS!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/make-america-great-again?utm_term=.hfXlOAVg1#.oqDG4qzpQ
I'm not a gun owner. Why does anyone need an assault weapon?
Handguns are good for home defense, especially with the tight halls in your home. While they are a murder weapon, they are statistically less dangerous than a swimming pool in your backyard.
Your chains rest lightly upon you now, but this may not always be the case.
History has shown that the people fare much better when their government respects and possibly even fears them. When government has overwhelmingly superior weapons, respect for the people decreases.
Donald Trump, is really running for President this time.
THere is no evidence he is running this time. He's the boy who cried wolf. Only the gullible would believe he's serious, when he lied about this before.
If he's serious where are his financial records? He's using the GOP once again and has no intention of running.
He's not running.
Why does anyone need an assault weapon?
NBC tipped his hand. They have not contingency for his reality show to be take off the air in the fall. Trump has assured them he won't be running.
Good answer. Thank you.
You nailed it. That is the main reason I like DT in the game.
Sorry I was completely with you right up until that post.
Trump you’ve got my full support, but let me be clear. I am very strongly for the entire 2nd Amendment. I think we have already exceeded the contitutional limits on gun control in a number of areas, and I want it rolled back, not advanced in any area.
Don’t even say we need to control guns.
Trump don’t go there. Not at all. Ever.
Reading the various early tributes to America's first President, George Washington, documents the fact that Washington was such a strong and qualified leader for a free society.
These times seem to demand such a leader!
The nation has had enough of arrogance posing as leadership.
The future of liberty in America and the world demands a leader whose primary qualification is fidelity to the "People's" Constitution.
Excerpted below are the concluding paragraphs from Justice Joseph Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution. . . ."
The final paragraph of that powerful document serves as a cautionary warning for today's attacks on its principles and limitations on government power.
" CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUDING REMARKS.§ 1903. We have now reviewed all the provisions of the original constitution of the United States, and all the amendments, which have been incorporated into it. And, here, the task originally proposed in these Commentaries is brought to a close. Many reflections naturally crowd upon the mind at such a moment; many grateful recollections of the past; and many anxious thoughts of the future. The past is secure. It is unalterable. The seal of eternity is upon it. The wisdom, which it has displayed, and the blessings, which it has bestowed, cannot be obscured; neither can they be debased by human folly, or human infirmity. The future is that, which may well awaken the most earnest solicitude, both for the virtue and the permanence of our republic. The fate of other republics, their rise, their progress, their decline, and their fall, are written but too legibly on the pages of history, if indeed they were not continually before us in the startling fragments of their ruins. They have perished; and perished by their own hands. Prosperity has enervated them, corruption has debased them, and a venal populace has consummated their destruction. Alternately the prey of military chieftains at home, and of ambitious invaders from abroad, they have been sometimes cheated out of their liberties by servile demagogues; sometimes betrayed into a surrender of them by false patriots; and sometimes they have willingly sold them for a price to the despot, who has bidden highest for his victims. They have disregarded the warning voice of their best statesmen; and have persecuted, and driven from office their truest friends. They have listened to the fawning sycophant, and the base calumniator of the wise and the good. They have reverenced power more in its high abuses and summary movements, than in its calm and constitutional energy, when it dispensed blessings with an unseen, but liberal hand. They have surrendered to faction, what belonged to the country. Patronage and party, the triumph of a leader, and the discontents of a day, have outweighed all solid principles and institutions of government. Such are the melancholy lessons of the past history of republics down to our own.
§ 1904. It is not my design to detain the reader by any elaborate reflections addressed to his judgment, either by way of admonition or of encouragement. But it may not be wholly without use to glance at one or two considerations, upon which our meditations cannot be too frequently indulged.
§ 1905. In the first place, it cannot escape our notice, how exceedingly difficult it is to settle the foundations of any government upon principles, which do not admit of controversy or question. The, very elements, out of which it is to be built, are susceptible of infinite modifications; and theory too often deludes us by the attractive simplicity of its plans, and imagination by the visionary perfection of its speculations. In theory, a government may promise the most perfect harmony of operations in all its various combinations. In practice, the whole machinery may be perpetually retarded, or thrown out of order by accidental mal-adjustments. In theory, a government may seem deficient in unity of design and symmetry of parts; and yet, in practice, it may work with astonishing accuracy and force for the general welfare. Whatever, then, has been found to work well in experience, should be rarely hazarded upon conjectural improvements. Time, and long and steady operation are indispensable to the perfection of all social institutions. To be of any value they must become cemented with the habits, the feelings, and the pursuits of the people. Every change discomposes for a while the whole arrangements of the system. What is safe is not always expedient; what is new is often pregnant with unforeseen evils, and imaginary good.
§ 1906. In the next place, the slightest attention to the history of the national constitution must satisfy every reflecting mind, how many difficulties attended its formation and adoption, from real or imaginary differences of interests, sectional feelings, and local institutions. It is an attempt to create a national sovereignty, and yet to preserve the state sovereignties; though it is impossible to assign definite boundaries in every case to the powers of each. The influence of the disturbing causes, which, more than once in the convention, were on the point of breaking up the Union, have since immeasurably increased in concentration and vigour. The very inequalities of a government, confessedly founded in a compromise, were then felt with a strong sensibility; and every new source of discontent, whether accidental or permanent, has since added increased activity to the painful sense of these inequalities. The North cannot but perceive, that it has yielded to the South a superiority of representatives, already amounting to twenty-five, beyond its due proportion; and the South imagines, that, with all this preponderance in representation, the other parts of the Union enjoy a more perfect protection of their interests, than her own. The West feels her growing power and weight in the Union; and the Atlantic states begin to learn, that the sceptre must one day depart from them. If, under these circumstances, the Union should once be broken up, it is impossible, that a new constitution should ever be formed, embracing the whole Territory. We shall be divided into several nations or confederacies, rivals in power and interest, too proud to brook injury, and too close to make retaliation distant or ineffectual. Our very animosities will, like those of all other kindred nations, become more deadly, because our lineage, laws, and language are the same. Let the history of the Grecian and Italian republics warn us of our dangers. The national constitution is our last, and our only security. United we stand; divided we fall.
§ 1907. If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."- Justice Joseph Story - "Commentaries on the Constitution. . . ."
Whether you like or dislike Donald Trump he is qualified to be President of the United States.
“Why does anyone need an assault weapon?”
OK as the owner of an “assault weapon” let me clear up a few things. The American public is by law not allowed to own assault weapons as they are fully automatic weapons with a selector switch.
What we are allowed to own are tactical rifles in various calibers. They are not automatic weapons, they are semi-automatic weapons which means you have to pull the trigger every time you want to fire the weapon. Just like any other rifle.
You may be familiar with the term AR15 which comes in .22, 9mm, .40, .45, .223, 5.56. 300 blackout and I’m sure somebody will come up with one I forgot. So basically an AR15 in .22 caliber is the same as a regular .22 rifle except its all black and a little scarier looking. I think now they call them AR 22’s.
So to answer your question tactical rifles are used for hunting, personal protection, target shooting and just in case the government should get a wild hare and decide to send us all to FEMA camps its a good weapon to have around to change their mind.
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