Posted on 03/01/2018 7:56:16 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
1.Trump Told Sens. Pat Toomey and Joe Manchin They’re Scared of the NRA
2. Trump: ‘Take the Guns First. Go Through Due Process Second’
3. Trump Encourages Everyone To Throw Everything Into The Bill. . . everything except concealed carry reciprocity.
4. Trump Blames ‘The Video Games. The Movies. The Internet Stuff’
5. Old Man Yells At Cloud...Sen. Chuck Grassley ratcheted up Trump’s rant against violence in movies a notch, or twelve.
6. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Face... Feinstein leapt for joy all throughout the meeting. At one point, she appears to have jumped several inches up from her seat and affectionately jabbed President Trump with her right arm.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
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.
Why even talk to these people?
With all the bump-stock chat on MSNBC, you’d start to think that there are 60-million bump-stocks out there.
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.
Got me a big sucker-fish on the hook. Took the bait!
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
Less now that one has been turned in.
I thought this guy was supposed to be smart and embrace business-based solutions that actually work, not react emotionally to events and “just do something.” He’s more of a politician than I thought, maybe even one of the best.
So what TWO anti-gun owner regulations are you going to do away with to get THIS one Mr. President?
So, do you think an EO concerning this would get challenged like the immigration fiasco? I’m thinkin’ nobody would raise an eyebrow unless it’s the kkk. I mean NRA. Sorry. ;-)
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?
And dynoman chimes in with “Who you gonna believe? Daddy or your own lying eyes?”
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