Posted on 02/28/2018 3:59:56 PM PST by Simon Green
I think folks need to relax. This is Donald J Trump, remember, Art of the Deal?
He’s just doing a little Rope-a-Dope. He’s put nothing down on paper. Hasn’t signed anything.
You people who are panicking will wonder what you were thinking.
No they don't.
Give it some time and watch it play out.
Trump talks a big game during negotiations...outside of bump stocks and increasing background checks on felons and the mentally disabled wackjobs, I don’t little of this passes Congress - and he kmows it.
Companies have done that kind of thing before.
Then they quietly come back when the issue dies down.
I agree....He’s talking about....getting complaints (like they got) and doing nothing....
I am a supporter of Trump and everything he has done. If he does anything to take away our 2nd amendment rights he can kiss that support goodbye. We are a nation of laws not demagogues.
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Oh yes they do!
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Agree, the pants on fire, Oh noooos, are getting a tad panicked. Cruz was a psycho who threatened to shoot up a school months before he did it. There should be a way to stop people like him. That's what DJT is kicking around.
That’s all very well and good for the scenario you describe but, it doesn’t really address the underlying point which is that Trump shouldn’t be suggesting, carte blanche, that we should “take the guns first,then go through due process”.
Imagine the following alternate scenario: Some neighbor of yours doesn’t like that you own guns, for whatever leftist drivel reason, goes to the police and claims you are acting crazy, and gets a bunch of his friends to “testify” to the fact too (i.e lie about you). Then also let’s say you are on some mild anti-depressant medication, that isn’t necessarily indicative of your mental state or capacity to responsibly own a gun, they are just some medications you are taking for a mild case of chronic depression.
So you see where this is going? Some leftist with a grudge against you for whatever reason, maybe it’s not even because you own guns but just because you vote conservative and he knows you do, and thus you must be “stopped”, and since he has no compunction about lying (because he’s a leftist) lies to the police and gets some of his friends to do it too, “corroborating” his complaint. And you are on record taking anti-depressant drugs (which can be twisted into further evidence you are “crazy” when you are not), all of these “reasons” can be used as justification for “taking the guns first, then go through due process”. And exactly what is that anyway?
You now have to go to court to prove you are innocent is what it is, which is the exact opposite of what this country is all about. You shouldn’t have to go to court to prove your are *not* crazy, your accusers should go to court to prove you *are*.
So you or anyone can claim I’m a “pearl clutcher” for not taking this latest spontaneous remark by the president very well. I don’t care. I’ll still *know* I’m a patriotic American who cares about infringement of my God given rights.
Sigh
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Many departments run you before making a traffic stop now.
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"Who" bottoms out on superior force and willing to use it.
I am biased to a position that assumes the government intends to eliminate all ability to resist. It aims to keep the people as harmless and productive livestock.
Much prefer communities to disarm the dangerous among them, without use of government.
Sure Because the courts have done such a good job with DACA? They don’t even have jurisdiction over an executive order but that hasn’t stopped them from legislating from the bench
Yep.
I am disgusted with Trump at this point.
Dunno what game he thinks he’s playing, by my civil rights are not to be used as pawns.
He’s going to end up in checkmate.
Playing with fire, but that is unavoidable given the forces at work.
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We now have Rand Paul’s broken ribs to show where all this is going.
We need to bring it to a stop now.
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There is a supposed acquaintance of his who was saying Cruz was obsessed with ISIS and that he visited ISIS web pages. Is this being hidden from the public?
Trump was extremely reckless today and fueled the Gun Grabber Left and media for another few week.
He trashed the NRA and a phony 2nd amendment .
The midterms will be disaster .
I have a feeling that this meeting’s tangible results will be the same as that bipartisan DACA meeting that Trump hosted a month or so ago.
Nothing.
Remember? Trump said he would sign anything and take the heat on DACA.
What has he signed on DACA so far? It’s a rhetorical question.
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