Trump prepares to pitch gun proposals few really want

Politico ^ | 09/05/2019 05:10 PM EDT | By ANITA KUMAR

[Lazamataz]

What Trump is considering, I can live with.

I still wish he'd stop passing more gun control than Obama.

[humblegunner]

The [P]resident is considering tougher penalties for straw buyers

The article does not display cutesy bracketing like that.

Do you mean to imply that Trump is ineligible or born in Kenyanesia or something?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Seriously, why is that there?

[Lazamataz]

"The [P]resident is considering tougher penalties for straw buyers"

The article does not display cutesy bracketing like that. Do you mean to imply that Trump is ineligible or born in Kenyanesia or something?

Curious you would mention that. :)

The author wrote 'president', which I feel is disrespectful. You should capitalize such a powerful, respected position.

So I capitalized it, and bracketed it -- as is normal literary behavior -- to demonstrate my alteration.

So, in direct contrast to your supposition, I actually was demonstrating MORE respect to President Trump... much more than the author of the article was!

[Lazamataz]

See my answer.

[Lazamataz]

Check and mate.

[humblegunner]

Yeah. No.

[bankwalker]

Will you two please go get a room!

[Jamestown1630]

I understand your reasoning, but many wouldn’t see it that way. (We used to call another president ‘resident’.)

[Drew68]

The author wrote 'president', which I feel is disrespectful. You should capitalize such a powerful, respected position.

Actually, the writer was following proper grammar, which doesn't care about feelings or respect. "President" is a proper noun and capitalized only when referring to a specific person who holds that title, i.e. "President Donald Trump" or "President Barack Obama." If used as a common noun, it is lowercased such as "The president is considering tougher penalties..."

[ealgeone]

And that was one of the nicer terms for the Kenyan.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

OK sorry about that. Yes you are exactly right.

[Lazamataz]

Ok, so I am wrong per the rules of grammar, yet I still will continue to capitalize President, so long as it is President Trump.

If the office is captured by a Democrat, I shall write president

[Lazamataz]

Will you two please go get a room!

We already did. It was disappointing.

And I never got my promised box of Popeyes chicken.

[humblegunner]

I still will continue to capitalize President, so long as it is President Trump.

What about them brackets you tossed in there?

Were they really good or maybe were they a mistake?

We weren't really talking about capitalization so mush as brackets.

What up with them brackets?

[humblegunner]

Q uses brackets and symbols and codes.
Were you doing that with brackets?
Are you Q?

[Lazamataz]

What about them brackets you tossed in there? Were they really good or maybe were they a mistake? We weren't really talking about capitalization so mush as brackets. What up with them brackets?

Mostly just to make you post what you just posted.

[Alas Babylon!]

And....

Back to the article discussion:

the death penalty for mass shooters, releasing troubled teenagers’ previously sealed records to the background-check database after they become adults and requiring the FBI to notify local authorities when a potential buyer fails a background check

Not a thing in these three items endanger gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment.

Of course, the DNCMedia will not be pleased until confiscation starts, but F them.

[Celerity]

“Most Democrats consider them too weak. Most Republicans, long resistant to triggering their base or the gun lobby, fear Trump won’t push them forcefully enough — leaving them hanging.”

So basically, not because they are our servants - working for us and not ruling over us - but we’re pesky and unmanageable. Got it.

[LS]

“prepares to”
“about to”
“considering”
“mulls”

This is not news. When it actually happens, it’s news.