Posted on 02/28/2018 5:11:24 PM PST by OneVike
President Donald Trump embraced Sen. Joe Manchins (D-WV) gun control bill but rejected Rep. Steve Scalises (R-LA) push for national reciprocity during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers Wednesday afternoon. After listening to Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT), Trump looked at toward the end of the table and asked Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) to detail their gun control bill.
The Manchin/Toomey gun control bill is the same universal background check legislation supported by Barack Obama in the wake of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. It the very bill that was defeated in the Democrat-controlled Senate on April 17, 2013.
Toomey described it for Trump, saying the bill strengthens the reporting of information into the background check system and requires background checks on all commercial sales. This is code-talk for requiring background checks on private gun sales, which Toomey described as sales at gun shows and online (even though online sales already require a background check).
Manchin then spoke and suggested that West Virginians will support the Manchin/Toomey gun control bill if Trump will support it. He did not mention that the Manchin/Toomey bill would not have prevented the Florida attack just as it would not have prevented the Sandy Hook attack that spawned it.
Trump spoke of the using the Manchin/Toomey bill as a base to which other gun bills can be added, and then continued taking comments from various senators and representatives in attendance.
When it was Rep. Scalises time to speak, he highlighted the crime-fighting value of concealed carriers and the need to pass national reciprocity legislation.
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Hopefully it will fail in the House.
LETS ALL VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS NEXT ELECTION THAT WILL SHOW EM
Stupid logic
You can’t compare Trump to any of those losers, sorry.
You fell for it again right Editor?
Dudes gone to China.
Contact you local Republican party and start to fight.
If you sit in your living room and post on FR and think your are making a difference, you are an idiot.
Get off your butt. Kiddos we have to fight. I’ve been going door to door for the last several elections. What have you done?????
“He is seriously stepping into dangerous territory, and Republicans will pay the price if they give him legislation to do what he wants to do.”
List what Trump wants to do. Thanks.
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>> “What is the argument against strong background checks?” <<
They are not helpful, and most of the parameters are unreasonable.
Background checks have never stopped a single shooting, and they never will.
Criminals do not obey silly laws that are so easy to circumvent.
The school shootings have all been deep state planned events, and will continue to be until the tyrants have crushed the people completely.
Guns prevent killings, and gun laws enable massacres.
This is just how it is.
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Maine splits its electoral votes, like Nebraska.
Trump won Maine’s Second Congressional District in November 2016 by 10 points against the Marxist witch. The Second District is Maine covers 80% of the state and is the largest Congressional District in area east of the Mississippi River.
Trump came here three times during the campaign. Don Jr. visited as well, and went to a gun shop and a gun range. Eric and his wife visited an apple orchard in western Maine during the Fall campaign, too.
The same election, Bloomturd’s Every Town for Gun Grabbing had a ballot initiative here in Maine which would have banned the private sale of firearms in Maine.
Despite Bloomturd’s heavy spending, the people of Maine said no to the ban on the sale of private firearms. Bloomturd lost, we still have private gun sales in Maine.
Now Trump wants to end that? I hope he reconsiders, because the base will go BOOM and Trump can kiss the 2018 midterms goodbye and 2020 as well. Hope he’s smart enough not to do this crap.
Trump has my support for as long as he is protecting my interests. Any direct or indirect national gun registry is non-negotiable. No, thank you.
Not “out of the question”, Trump just said he doesn’t want it added to NICS a bill. Never hurts to check primary sources in context before blasting off.
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You’re being foolish.
Trump has been known for his gun grabber rhetotic in the past. And he does way too much hip-shooting when he doesn’t have well formed dialogue to fall back on.
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Call and Email the House members .
the left is astroturfing with a well funded machine
I don't trust Trump after he attacked the NRA today .
Don’t be stupid.
We have a four part government, the people being the fourth branch. In order to be effective, the people must possess force of arms and be willing to use it - God forbid, should the need arise. See Declaration of Independence.
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>> “No wonder Dianne Feinstein was grinning from ear to ear as the festivities wrapped up.” <<
No kidding!
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Loose lips sink ships. Trite, but very true. Words can be used against you. Ask George HW Bush.
About sums it up .
Call your Reps and the WH .
Trumps attack on Scaliese and the NRA today are to be taken seriously .
Control, Rejects Steve Scalises National Reciprocity Push, Luircin wrote:
Let me guess...more 5D chess by Trump?
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Lets see, how many times have you never-Trump brigadiers been made to look like fools?
Syria: HES A NEOCON WARMONGER! Result: You look like fools when he doesnt do anything youre screaming about.
Tax cuts: HES NOT GIVING THE RIGHT TAX CUTS! Result: Tax cuts passed and people are loving them. You look like fools.
DACA: HES BETRAAAAAYEEEED USSSSSSSSS! Results: DACA is dead in under a week; you all look like fools.
See a pattern here?
Good post.
“Universal background checks” is code for outlawing private transfers.
If you give your son or brother a gun, it will be illegal.
If you sell one to your neighbor, it will be illegal.
Once every transfer is subject to paperwork they will have de facto registration.
Registration always leads to confiscation.
“...Trump told House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La.,...that a comprehensive gun bill would not pass if it included a concealed carry reciprocity proposal desired by Republicans....Trump told Scalise...it should pass as a separate. If youre going to put concealed carry between states into this bill, were talking about a whole new ball game....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QI6gT7zxXg
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