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To: MD Expat in PA

I listened very carefully and actually relistened as this is an issue that is very important to me personally.

The context of what was said made it clear that he was talking about the part that a President could directly impact: the carry on military bases. But you already knew that.

As I noted above I don’t really mind that the leftmedia and the useful idiots at FR got it wrong: it just gives more airtime to the issue of eliminating unarmed victim zones.


79 posted on 01/08/2016 12:30:09 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (I might vote. Why? Because I prefer a President Trump to civil war.)
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To: marktwain; RKBA Democrat
I listened to it. In context, I believe the punctuation should be this:

Where you "think" a punctuation mark should go does not change what Trump actually said. Evidently "And" does not really mean "And" just as Trump's friend didn't think that "is" really means "is".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlt1W83JFU

I listened very carefully and actually relistened as this is an issue that is very important to me personally. The context of what was said made it clear that he was talking about the part that a President could directly impact: the carry on military bases. But you already knew that. As I noted above I don't really mind that the leftmedia and the useful idiots at FR got it wrong: it just gives more airtime to the issue of eliminating unarmed victim zones.

Again, he said "I will get rid of gun free zones on schools. You have to. "And on Military bases, (.) My first day, it gets signed."

And again, as I said before, in principle, I have no disagreement with eliminating federally mandated "gun free zones", specifically repealing the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1990

Enacted when both the house and senate were controlled by the Dems, but signed no less than by George H. W. Bush and IMO a very stupid and un-Constitutional piece of legislation. But that would require, if we are to following that pesky thing called the US Constitution; new legislation to overturn it or a SCOTUS challenge to overturn it in its entirety, not simply a swipe of the pen via an executive order on Trump's first day in office. It also might run into issues where state and local laws have been enacted, separately and independent from the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. But "F" the 10th amendment and let's have the Federal Gov continue to ignore it. Now if the state and local laws violate the Constitution, 2nd A Rights as I and evidently you do as well, it needs to be challenged in the SCOTUS and not simply overturned by the sweep of the pen by Trump.

As POTUS and Commander In Chief Trump with a new SOD could however overturn Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5210.56: signed into effect in February 1992 by Donald J. Atwood, deputy secretary of defense (and again) under President George H.W. Bush.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a272176.pdf

However it should be noted that according to some; "We have never had our soldiers walking around with weapons all the time, other than in combat zones," he (Steven Bucci, a military expert for The Heritage Foundation who served 28 years in the Army and retired in 2005 with the rank of colonel) added, noting only Military Police have had that authority.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/17/this-is-why-most-military-personnel-are-disarmed-on-military-bases-and-its-not-clintons-fault/

I notice that Trump employs a lot of the same language as Obama does with the use of "I" - "I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that". Nary ever a word about the US Constitution or The Rule of Law and that disturbs me as it should any real Conservative.

Many of us here have correctly pointed out Obama's narcissism in this, but some here fail to recognize the same sort of use of language and rhetoric and narcissism when it comes to Trump.

Sort of like when Trump said "I'm a good Christian," "If I become president, we're gonna be saying Merry Christmas at every store ... You can leave happy holidays at the corner."

What is Trump as POTUS going to do? Sign some sort of Executive Order mandating that all retail stores and restaurants force all their employees to say "Merry Christmas" to each and every customer? Yep. A lot of us don't like the PC of "Happy Holidays" but forcing private businesses to comply with what Trump thinks on this matter is surely "Constitutional". /s

Never mind that Trump does not follow the same when it comes to his own companies:

Nor does he even have a grasp of whether or not his various properties have no-gun signs posted or if or if not they are enforced....

Are guns welcome at Trump hotels? Depends on whom you ask

Don't get me wrong. It is not that I disagree with all Trump says or "intends" to do. But yet another imperial minded president or the continuation of what we've had under Obama, and even before him, is is not the direction I want to see this country go. We need to get back to the small, limited and Constitutional government that our founders gave and envisioned for us. I don't see Trump as being The One in the that respect. And it concerns me that so many are willing to give Trump even more power some even supporting near dictatorial powers for "the greater good".

Is the Enemy of My Enemy necessarily my Friend? Well Trump sure is popular.

"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause".

94 posted on 01/09/2016 1:08:07 PM PST by MD Expat in PA
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