Wake up, people.
If there's a plan here, it's Ivanka's. She got to him, probably in an effort to distract us from Jared's latest mess and Trump, being a rich city boy with bodyguards, never really understood the Second Amendment in the first place.
Always been concerned about her influence on Dad. I mean she is supposedly buddies with chelsea so that alone should bring into question her judgement.
Unilaterally banning bump stocks via executive order is unconstitutional and it sure as heck isn’t 4D chess.
I thought of this as well.
For us to let the democrats eat you alive?
I’m getting real tired of this “rope-a-dope” and “4D chess” bullshit explanation/defense for everything Trump’s doing. It’s pretty clear that he’s leaning toward “universal” background checks, which means that, in order to sell or give a gun - any gun - to my kids, I have to run them through a background check and get the government’s permission. Didn’t Cruz got permission from the government to guy a gun? Once again, we’re being presented with a “solution” that will affect ONLY law-abiding citizens and NOT criminals.
The NRA and the vast majority of its members, myself included, supported and helped initiate the NICS, which is only as good as the information fed into it by the states, which is NOT comprehensive. There are a number of states that fail to report disqualifying information to the FBI, which administers the NICS system. In Cruz’s case, the school, county, and local police should have charged him with various crimes and he should have been reported for mental health issues, which would have resulted in his disqualification to purchase a firearm. They did not - and primarily due to a federal program that tied funding to a decrease in crime. In the case of Broward County and Parkland, crime didn’t decrease, they just stopped arresting and reporting people like Cruz so it looked like crime was going down. Again, in Cruz’s case, local citizens reported his behavior in accordance with what they were asked to do; when they “saw something”, they said something, but the FBI was too busy to do anything about it.
The bottom line is that the Parkland shooting was not only allowed, but facilitated by bad policy and utter incompetence and ineptitude at every level of government.
The government’s answer - as it always is, restrict the freedom of law-abiding citizens so everyone feels good, but only for a while, until those policies and laws, like the ones that preceded them, also fail. There are over 20,000 “common sense” gun laws on the books in the United States, but we haven’t gotten to common sense yet. Legislate, rinse, repeat. The one thing government is really good at? Making criminals out of law-abiding citizens and, increasingly in our case, not citizens, but subjects.
I’ll link both the video and the transcript so everyone here can verify the context and truth of these six “insane” moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QI6gT7zxXg
CW2 on its way. And, I’m afraid it will be a shootin’ war!
As for Trump loyalists… well they only had a few possible routes to take. They could say “he doesn’t really mean it”, they could say “he has a point you know”, or they could say “hmm? Gun meeting? No, I didn’t hear about that, hey have you seen Black Panther?”
Yep, reading all three in comments here at FR.
Mr. Trump stepped on his d*** yesterday. Better fix it - and fast.
And get rid of Sessions while you’re at it, Mr. President. You and your Presidency stand at the precipice.
Be prepared to be called a liar, a wacky-bird, a traitor and a Hillary supporter by the “Trump walks on water” crowd.
We’re not allowed to voice dissent when it comes to President Trump’s all-knowing political acumen.
Y’all think that Cruz would have gone this route?
Trump does to the left what Lucy did to Charlie Brown with the football. These gun control proposals will go nowhere in congress and Trump knows it, just like DACA.
But in the interim, the left will introduce full Assault Weapons bans, and make noise, the NRA will increase funding and membership (already up 500,000), and all the lazy-asses who would have sat out the nov 2018 vote will show up and give Trump a more Republican congress.
This is just like DACA. We can and should complain, but there is no reason to lose faith in the Trump until something bad passes, which I am pretty sure it won’t.
Trump is a patriot thru and thru. Fighting battles on all sides with one hand tied. God bless President Donald J Trump.
You don’t understand Trump any better than the MSM does.
Make it easy on yourself - don’t pay attention to what he says. Words are negotiating tools, they are used and tossed aside as needed. Pay attention to what he DOES.
Has he done anything that supports all your pearl-clutching? No. He’s accomplished an amazing 60%+ of his agenda in one year.
People who know Trump take him seriously but not literally. People who don’t know Trump take him literally but not seriously. Trust Trump.
***Trump Blames ‘The Video Games. The Movies. The Internet Stuff’***
And in the hysteria of 1968, the blame was Movies that glorified violence, TV shows, comic books, pulp fiction, toy guns.
So toy guns disappeared from toy stores, TV shows for adults but safe for kids were dumbed down to kiddie shows, comic books changed their format, Pulp fiction changed their blood and sex soaked covers.
Meanwhile the movie industry said they would police themselves with a joke of a ratings system. Scenes were reshot to ADD more blood and guts, sex and violence to obtain the coveted “R” rating.
Wonder what will change now with video games and internet games.
During the campaign a thread such as this would have been the end of the FR line for some folks.
“2. Trump: ‘Take the Guns First. Go Through Due Process Second’”
Sounds ominous, but he was talking about obviously mentally disturbed who are potentially dangerous according to their family members. He illustrated this statement with the current school shooter, who had been visited by the police 40 times in just a few years, and people had told them that he was dangerous. It would have been better to error on the side of safety, than to wait for weeks or months to go thru the court system. He did not mean to just take guns from people for no reason or as some type of general confiscation.
I see Trump as transparent to use the fad word. What you see is how some conduct business meetings, of an exploratory nature.
To me this is not bad, or good. It just is.
I credit him for having the self-confidence and courage, to do this immediately after this horrible event.