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/
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He is over 35, and a US citizen. Can't argue with that. But so are about fifty million people each of which would do a better job than combover boy.
It's called "salesmanship".
Actually if you cut through the rhetoric for a few seconds Trump would probably do a pretty good job.
II Amendment: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.Donald Trump is supposed to defend and uphold the US Constitution. How is he going to do when he disagrees with it?
He’s a crony capitalist big government guy from way, way back. I would vote for Christie or Huckabee before I’d vote for Trump. (please God may I not be confronted with that choice.....)
I get it that citizens can be armed. for self defense, to protect others and property, and to protect ones rights against an out of control government. Somebody already explained to me the definition of "assault weapons" so I have a clearer picture.
But I don't think someone saying some kinds of weapons should be restricted is a bad thing. I understand, though, that it's a slippery slope and if the gov starts restricting things, it wouldn't be long before squirt guns are illegal.
I don't think it's a reason to discount Trump. I think it's a conversation we need to have. Aren't members of Trump's family hunters? So, I doubt he's a gun-grabber.
It is far more likely that the choice you will have is Hillary or Donald.
I would vote for Satan incarnate before I would vote for Hillary.
Well I must tell you that there are a lot of people who will be fine with giving Trump a chance.
He’s not a gun grabber. Even if he was the legislature is not going to try to pass any gun control anytime soon. The public does not want gun control which is why you see many states passing legislation to loosen their gun laws even further.
The Framers have addressed your question, at least implicitly. Article I, section 8, clause 11 authorizes congress to issue "Letters of Marque and Reprisal". At the time of the founding, these were warrants authorizing private citizens to take action against enemy nations.
The very strong implication was that it was perfectly reasonable for individual citizens, or groups of individual citizens, to possess weapons at least comparable to, if not equivalent, or even superior to those of enemy nations.
Even though congress has never used this power, the thinking behind it is pretty clear to anyone who can read common english. The lawyers who will spend days and months arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin have convinced themselves that the 2A has a much lesser meaning today. But it does not take much thinking or study for a reasonable man to convince himself that the original meaning of "keep and bear arms" was quite broad.
I don’t doubt it. A lot of people would vote for Oprah, or Joel Osteen, or Dale Earnhardt Junior.
I am a conservative. I don’t like guns, but respect the Constitutional right to have guns. Anything about the extent of the right to bear arms is new information to me.
As my high school civics teacher used to tell us, five plus decades ago: "politics is the art of the possible."
As much as I would love to see a return to the original meaning of the 2A, the best I think we are ever going to get in my lifetime is the appointment of 1 or 2 conservative Supremes. This and a conservative congress may get us to semi-auto rifles and pistols with normal capacity magazines and shall-issue CCW being available throughout the country.
Even if Trump is wishy-washy on the 2A right now, he has room to learn. He is constitutionally qualified to be President, and he can learn the real meanings of history and the founding in a short time.
He is flamboyant, likable, and rich enough to self-finance a serious campaign. He is also media-savvy, which we are going to need to beat Hillary. We could do a lot worse in our nomination. While I like Walker and Cruz more than Trump, on an idealogical basis, Trump has the huge advantage of being wealthy enough and connected enough to take retribution on any members of the media who try to undercut him though skullduggery.
Think Candy Crowley and the 2012 debate, where she essentially lied as the clock ran out to throw public opinion to Obama, when Romney was actually correct on the issue at hand. While she could do that to Mitt, I don't think anyone would have the courage to pull an underhanded trick like that on Trump. Her personal finances would be in the crapper for the rest of her life and every peccadillo in her past would be magnified and broadcast to the entire world.
Best of all, Trump is an unabashed capitalist who can get our economy moving again.
Imagine a guy who has navigated the corruption of the NY real estate market taking on the task of reforming defense procurement. We would have advanced weaponry on time and under budget. In quantities that would make Putin shake & quiver in his boots. And, he would recognize ISIS as a true threat.
We may not need an assault weapon, but there is the 2nd Amendment component, and creeping gun control that goes with limiting what a gun owner can have.
When are they doing away with Hammers, Knives, ball bats, fence post, shoelaces all have been used as killing weapons. Not to mention poisons.
It's also a diversion from what all of this homicidal maniacs have in common. From the little information that trickles to us online, it seems that they've all been prescribed mind-altering pharmaceuticals, which might explain the dead look in their eyes and their blurring of fantasy and reality.
It’s not just mind altering drugs, a popular sleep aid Lunesta causes EXTREME RAGE KILLING and can from the first pill, the effects last at least 2 days. I don’t sleep well because of pain and was prescribed it. Thus speaks a single experience with it. I hid in the house for 2 days until the effects wore off, as I knew I was not my normal mellow self.
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2011/07/18/drugs-that-trigger-violent-behavior/
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