Steve, I understand people being upset about bump stocks. To be honest, I’d never heard of them before the Las Vegas mass shooting. Somehow I think we’ll be able to defend the nation without them. Does that mean Trump was right? I don’t think so.
As for Trump not meeting a minimum standard in 2016, who are you kidding? The guy put his platform out there and it was the best one I’d seen in my lifetime.
“But candidate Trump didn’t come close to meeting my minimum standard for support, and his actions as President sure haven’t changed that.”
Well, you just lost me right there.
We’re not going to agree. Take care.
You asked me a question (”As for Trump not meeting a minimum standard in 2016, who are you kidding?”). My answer: I’m not kidding anyone. Trump did not come close to meeting my personal minimum standard for support. I’m not a single-issue voter, but here’s one matter that by itself was enough to know that Trump didn’t measure up: abortion. Trump says he opposes abortion. That’s nice, but every day, thousands of these littlest persons are deprived of their lives without due process under color of law here in the US, despite the fact that our Constitution clearly states that no person shall be deprived of their life without due process. The candidate I supported, FReeper Tom Hoefling, laid out his plan to shut down the child-killing centers and the sale of abortifacient drugs, including actions he would take on his first day of office. Last Spring, Trump tweeted about a secret plan to end abortion. He added that he was the only one who knows how to do this. Well, that prompts me to ask similar question as you asked me: who’s fooling whom?
That figure of thousands of abortions a day here in the US is based on the reported number of surgical abortions. How many more abortions are due to use of abortifacient drugs and devices marketed as contraceptives? Well, we don’t know. The Guttmacher Institute was hired by the nation of India to estimate the number for that nation (Guttmacher estimated there were 13 times more abortifacient drug abortions than surgical abortions. The only other estimate I’ve seen was a doctor writing for American Life League - decades ago - who estimated that there were 72 times more abortifacient drug abortions than surgical abortions. I did the math when the 2017 surgical abortion tally was released: if 13 times more were aborted by pill, that means there’s been over a million abortions in the US since Trump took office.