Posted on 01/23/2016 12:07:02 PM PST by Isara
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Field & Stream: Q&A: Donald Trump on Guns, Hunting, and Conservation https://t.co/RFR63RSq38 pic.twitter.com/WkvIrTSSGy— Field & Stream (@FieldandStream) January 22, 2016 |
Some news to report out of Las Vegas where Donald Trump sat down with Field & Stream magazine for an interview during the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s annual SHOT Show.
First up, the GOP front-runner came out against letting states control public lands now run by the federal government saying, “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”:
This is what they’re talking about, with the land in red owned by the federal government:
Rand Paul has already spoken about this, saying in 2015 that federal lands should be handed over to state or local governments:
“I’d either sell or turn over all the land management to the states,” Paul, a Republican presidential candidate and senator from Kentucky, said, landing him big applause at a campaign event. “I don’t think the federal government needs to be involved.”
Later in the interview, Trump seemed to signal that we shouldn’t allow oil and gas companies to drill any new wells on federally-controlled lands because there’s already “so much energy”:
You can read the entire interview here.
In the interest of fairness I should have pointed out that neither Bush 41 nor GW were exactly active on this issue either. So why hang Trump on it right off the bat?
Because neither HW or W are running.
Trump is right about drilling for now. There is a glut of oil on the world market driving prices extremely low. With sanctions lifted for Iran to sell its oil, it will be a strained situation for at least a couple of years: Layoffs, reduced drilling, on-hold exploration, bankruptcies for small companies, etc. I live outside Houston and people are scared.
I agree. I think Trump is teachable. He’s an expert on business deals, but he’s working on a new deal now and it’s about federal constitutional limitations. He needs to get that.
He did there is the statement he released on another thread.
He’s being criticized for releasing it by other CRUZ supporters
As granny used to say “hell if you do and hell if you don’t!”
The "restrictions" already exist; they fall under the last -- and most important Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
You have no right whatsoever to "restrict" the people of Nevada or Utah or New Mexico, or anywhere else. You get to say what lands are public or private in your own state. Nothing more, nothing less. Our form of government not only does NOT give you the right to tell people in another state how to use or reserve their land, it explicitly forbids you from trying to take their right to do so away:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Period.
If the people of California want to do something idiotic with their land, the Tenth Amendment is clear: they have the right to do that, and the Federal Government DOES NOT.
It doesn’t matter if states “mishandle” the land. They are recognized as having that power by The Bill of Rights. You don’t get to tell people in other states that they’re “mishandling” their own state property. Read Amendment X. It’s clear, it’s unequivocal, and it’s the Supreme Law of The United States of America.
I actually agree with Trump for once. Color me astounded.
Great interview I found last summer in which Ivanka explains how his board room works. First he brings in the experts. She emphasized his listening skills
Go Cruz.
Let's look at the Hoover Dam, Yosemite National Park, Grand Canyon.
Big subject for tiny interview.
I said I understand them not that I agree with them. Who will allow the states to control the land among those running that have a chance of winning. Not Bush, Rubio, Cruz, Trump, Clinton or Sanders.
Thus the argument to do so has to be advanced but it will be against whomever we elect as the next President.
Rubio and Cruz both public ally stated they supported the BLM in Oregon. What happened to the guys that were going to fight for you, the ones committed to standing by the constitution? One has these rights to prevent government over reach. Never listen to someone who tells you to surrender your rights and then at a later time try and win them back. That is exactly what Cruz and Rubio have told you to do. Trump just basically did the same.
I said I understand them not that I agree with them. Who will allow the states to control the land among those running that have a chance of winning. Not Bush, Rubio, Cruz, Trump, Clinton or Sanders.
Thus the argument to do so has to be advanced but it will be against whomever we elect as the next President.
Rubio and Cruz both public ally stated they supported the BLM in Oregon. What happened to the guys that were going to fight for you, the ones committed to standing by the constitution? One has these rights to prevent government over reach. Never listen to someone who tells you to surrender your rights and then at a later time try and win them back. That is exactly what Cruz and Rubio have told you to do. Trump just basically did the same.
Aren’t you troubled by the idea that this man has to be taught the concept of state sovereignty at this point of his life?
Are you really willing to send a man with whom you fundamentally disagree with on such an important point to Washington on the hope he finally sees the light after he is elected?
I believe too much rides on this next election to take that kind of chance.
I think Trump is a good listener. Let’s hope he listens to the right people on this stuff.
Just left that country after 25 years to live in northern Michigan.
Agenda 21 stronghold.
The rest of the country has no idea how communist and UN it has become.
I am. But if you Google Trump and Agenda 21 there is info to support that he gets it.
I HOPE.
Yep they all signed the UN treaties and if no one gets us out of this mess soon we will be living in apts.
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