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Bob001 said:
Why don't you tell us -- in your own words, of course -- why you think it should be easier to get away with shooting people? Suppressors have been tightly restricted -- but not prohibited -- under federal law since 1934. Anyone who wants one for legitimate purposes can buy one if he complies with the law unless he lives in one of the states where the people, through their legislators, have determined that they should not be allowed in their states. (States' rights is a good thing, right?) There is no evidence that limited availability of firearms silencers is harmful to the society.

Apart from the merits of the issue, it says a lot about the the Trumps that Donnie's little boy and avid African game killer is making this one of the first things he wants to do when his dad moves into the White House. What about all those coal mines that are supposed to be coming back to West Virginia, and all those factories promised to Michigan, and all that great health insurance instead of Obamacare?
http://inhabitat.com/donald-trumps-sons-under-fire-for-photos-with-dead-leopard-elephant-and-more/
http://www.google.com/search?q=dona...th9n-IaIUmXz5zOXR86c4g=#imgrc=eIiokpt6OLdy1M:
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He still needs to figure out how to drive up oil and gas prices to make coal more attractive.
 
Reheat said:
There is no harm in prohibiting you from making onerous despicable posts either. I don't need some Government agency telling me what I can own or not own. While that obviously doesn't bother you, it does me. I presume that a Trump is advocating it is the rub. Well, there may be other rubs in the near future and I truly hope it galls naysayers to the bone.
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Yes if an individual wants to own nuclear/chemical/biological weapons that is their own choice and the laws should reflect that. Why look how hard it is to buy bulk explosives for fun in the US.
 
Argumemnon said:
Well, that's the crux, ain't it? How much importance one sees in the individual vs the group. If you can't agree on that, you can't agree on all value judgments that derive from it.
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Exactly "I've got mine, screw everyone else" is the real american way. Look at all those people who depend on Obamacare for their lives and health and voted for trump.
 
alfaniner said:
I've never seen another person who spews more verbal liquid **** than Kellyanne Conway. At some point she's got to say, "Look, I can't keep this up any more."
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She has already told people to ignore everything trump says. We are supposed to figure out his heart and not go by those lies he emits from his mouth.
 
I just read a lengthy article about Abdel el-Sisi, the elected president of Egypt. Although Sisi was one of the military officers who in June 2013 removed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi from office, Sisi ran for president in 2014 and was elected in what observers felt was a fairly democratic process.

I don't want to derail this thread into a discussion about Egypt, and I'm not trying to. My point is, the subtext to the article was relevant to the current situation in the U.S. Prior to taking office, el-Sisi was lauded by supporters as being a great candidate for president since he was not a politician. Let a non-politician run things, people said, and maybe we can get somewhere. This was true, el-Sisi had no prior political experience, but it has created a number of political problems, some of which we may see -- might already be seeing -- in the U.S.

  1. el-Sisi's lack of experience in politics means that he has little experience or skills in building a consensus for policies he wants to adopt. He literally doesn't know how to do that.

  2. Because he was never a functioning member of a political party he does not get the feedback from party colleagues the way a typical politician would. In political parties this is often done privately, to avoid embarrassing the chief executive or putting him on the defensive in public.

  3. Because he was never a politician he does not have grassroots connections around the country, the kinds of connections that are helpful in making a president aware of what the average citizen thinks or wants.

The reason I was interested in this article was because of comments I heard a Egyptian-American woman in New York make. Her father still lives in Cairo and has been following the U.S. elections. He urged his daughter to vote for Donald Trump. He thinks Trump sounds like "an ideal man." He loves that Trump "is no politician," like Sisi, only as this woman said, since el-Sisi took office things have only gotten worse in Egypt.

In my mind this is a case of, "Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it."
 
I gotta be honest, the one thing that disappointed me the most about Trump winning is that I was reaaaaallly looking forward to post on my facebook wall "Dear mr Trump: YOU'RE FIRED" on november 9th.
 
kookbreaker said:
Yay! Bipartisanship!


Glad to see Trump is reaching across the aisles for the important issues.
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This link is worth expanding, it's worrying.

Anti-Vaccine Activist Says Trump Asked Him to Head Commission on Vaccine Safety

After meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower Tuesday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told reporters that Trump has asked him to "chair a commission on vaccination safety and scientific integrity" and that he has accepted.

Both Trump and Kennedy have spread fringe theories linking vaccines to autism in children, an idea that medical experts overwhelmingly reject and have warned is endangering public health by discouraging parents from immunizing their kids.

"President-elect Trump has some doubts about the current vaccine policies and he has questions about it," Kennedy told the press. "He says his opinion doesn't matter ... but the science does matter, and we ought to be reading the science and we ought to be debating the science."
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Trump to appoint an anti-vaccine activist to a a panel on scientific integrity? But the appointee is RFK Jr, which I guess means all the libs and leftist support it?
Trump tweeted several times in 2014 that the use of multiple vaccinations caused autism, claiming at one point "the doctors lied."

"Just the other day, two years old, two and a half years old, a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back, and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic," Trump said at the time. He offered no details or evidence on the case. NBC News link
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Yeah just the other day. Beautiful child, tremendously beautiful, So disgusting what happened to that child. Folks it was off-the-charts disgusting. And the way the doctors lied? They're scum!

  • Reporter: "When did this happen Mr. President and how did you learn of it sir?"
  • President Trump: "When did...? You're disgusting scum, you really are!"
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newyorkguy said:
I just read a lengthy article about Abdel el-Sisi, the elected president of Egypt. Although Sisi was one of the military officers who in June 2013 removed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi from office, Sisi ran for president in 2014 and was elected in what observers felt was a fairly democratic process.
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One difference is that el-Sisi spent his life in the Army, and rose to general and Defense Minister. He at least has had the experience of working with others to achieve larger goals and he knows how government works. But Trump has literally never worked for anybody but his father and himself with no other goal than making money. His fundamental ignorance is probably the worst of his many awful qualities.
 
newyorkguy said:
Trump to appoint an anti-vaccine activist to a a panel on scientific integrity? But the appointee is RFK Jr, which I guess means all the libs and leftist support it?
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RFK Jr. has long been known as a borderline nutcase whose name alone guarantees him a platform. He's not much of a credit to his family.
 
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