Posted on 01/23/2016 6:41:26 AM PST by phothus
http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/2016/01/qa-donald-trump-on-guns-hunting-and-conservation?src=SOC&dom=tw
"AL: I'd like to talk about public land. Seventy percent of hunters in the West hunt on public lands managed by the federal government. Right now, there's a lot of discussion about the federal government transferring those lands to states and the divesting of that land. Is that something you would support as President? "
"DT: I don't like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don't know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don't think it’s something that should be sold. We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land. And we have to be great stewards of this land. And the hunters do such a great job-I mean, the hunters and the fishermen and all of the different people that use that land. So I've been hearing more and more about that. And it's just like the erosion of the Second Amendment. I mean, every day you hear Hillary Clinton wants to essentially wipe out the Second Amendment. We have to protect the Second Amendment, and we have to protect our lands."
Full interview at the link
(Excerpt) Read more at fieldandstream.com ...
Link below is to a FR discussion about Trump's comments on the BLM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3382949/posts?q=1&;page=51
Thank you for posting this.
Trump has basically come out and now says he doesn’t trust the states.
I have so many problems with him, because I see him as a big-government progressive statist (single payer healthcare, for example) and this is one of them. He and I are polar opposites on values. I am voting for someone who respects the founders idea that power belongs to the states or the people unless it’s enumerated in the Constitution.
This is especially important in the area of who owns the land. It’s fundamental.
I’d say he’s in a pondering phase. The solution will be to sell it with restrictions.
Donald Trump: “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,”
Yes Freepers, that’s the same slow gun control creep strategy of many on the left. Baby steps.
His main issue seems to be with the states selling the land. Stopping that by including a provision in a turnover deal would not be difficult.
States are generally good stewards of their own land. But, there have been some egregious exceptions.
Anti 10th Amendment. It is in a state’s best interest to keep their public lands in tip top shape. They are money makers with the fees...taxes.
The Feds manage land so well there are wild fires in Cali every year. Government created water shortages too.
Even how much water that goes over Niagara Falls is regulated. Bet the same is true with Hoover Dam.
He’s pro life too. And pro choice. It all depends....,
But he promised to build THE WALL. THE WALL!
That’s right and he want to deport all the illegals and then expedite them right back in in front of people who have been waiting to come in legally.
And he wants to get rid of Obamacare and wants universal healthcare.
Trump wants to federalize Kelo.
Instead of it being a state by state decision as to whether or not the govt can take someone’s land for someone else’s personal use the fed govt will have the power to take someone’s land for someone like Trump to use for his personal gain.
Someone has a piece of land they have worked for years to make a really nice piece of property and Trump decides that would make a world class golf course at very little cost because most of the work has already been done.
Since that land would have an ag exemption, D Trump’s golf course would bring in a lot more tax revenue.
With Kelo at a federal level, Trump wouldn’t have to worry about dealing with state law and local govt.
Fed govt just takes it for his use.
“But he promised to build THE WALL. THE WALL!”
And make Mexico pay for it.
Translation- The wall won’t be built until Mexico agrees to pay.
I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do.”
But we do know what the Federal Government will do. I think some parks should remain with the Fed, but those vast tracks of land in the West should go back to the states.
I am quite sure that the Constitution limits the land the Federal government may own(Article I, Section. 8) within the borders of any state. That said, the Federal government has been able to retain control over huge amounts of the western US for several generations, despite the territories becoming states. The Donald, right or wrong has coupled his “land grab” with keeping land free and useful to all Americans. The land has been grabbed for a long time. Moreover, as a practical matter, we have seen liberal legislatures systematically, lease access to state/federal land and take it from the use of the people. Purity tests aren’t going to cut it with any candidate. I doubt even Cruz would slip his head in this noose.
Where is that quote from? It’s not in the article.
“Where is that quote from? It’s not in the article.”
On the Issues quoting: “The America We Deserve”, by Donald Trump, p.102 , Jul 2, 2000
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Gun_Control.htm
“Great” is the 2016 version of “Hope and Change”
So you are quoting something said over 15 years ago and before 9-11????
If you haven’t noticed, a lot has changed since then...
Attitudes and opinions included...
I believe he is right in the sense that some states would restrict all hunting and fishing on public land. Others may sell some of it deemed (not in state interest) or during a financial crisis. Who would that land be sold to? Probably developers or large landholders not from the state. On the flip side some states would do a better job of managing the lands than the federal government and I do not trust that one day a liberal president will close down all hunting on federally managed property “in the public interest”.
One flip-flop is perhaps understandable but when coupled with Trump’s support of abortion, universal healthcare, gun control, far-left campaign contributions, praises for Obama, praises for Clinton, praises for DeBlasio, thinking his liberal sister would be a good SCOTUS, that Buffett might fit into a Administration post, that he would grant amnesty for up to 11,000,000 illegals, that he buys votes with ethanol subsidies, that he takes money from George Soros, that he accepts gay marriage, that he supports seizure of private property, now says he will join the establishment, donates to the Clinton Foundation, and probably more, do you see it as his “attitude changed”?
Me, I see a pattern. I see liberal. I see disingenuous. I see conman. Personally, I don’t trust liberal disingenuous conmen.
I'm in NYS....the give me an arm and a leg state..........and your first born.
Depends on a plan.....
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