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Trump 'Going to Get Americans Killed' With Industry-Friendly Gun Order, Warn Critics.
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Why do you think Putin bought him?
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When you look at Donald Trump as a Trojan horse in the cold war, everything makes sense.
My university education was largely targeting the US diplomatic response to the downfall of the USSR and the rise of the CIS. One of my professors was ex-KGB who worked with the Stasi in East Germany and was a spy for MI-5. He mentioned on more than one occasion that his former colleagues were very angry over the loss of the ColdWar and many would want revenge. I believe this is that revenge.
None of those policies stop mass shootings. They're just virtue signaling from anti-2a groups.
Do something meaningful for once that doesn't target trying to magically make murder somehow more illegal.
Put the time and political capital into things that actually would change our society.
Single payer healthcare, so people can get mental health without going broke and avoiding it. Or turning to suicide, which is 2/3rds of our firearm deaths.
Reform prisoners, not lock them away for forever and rob them of ever being a productive member of society.
Get rid of for profit prisons, so we're not turning an addict into someone who gets out of prison and can't get a job because they carry a felony.
End qualified immunity so the 1/40 gun deaths aren't from police who just kill people and get away with it.
Increase our school funding 10 fold. Build more schools, so class sizes can be 10-15 kids max per teacher. Not 30-40+
Solidify abortion rights into law, why the hell it's been left to the courts for so long is insane. More unwanted children doesn't create mentally stable people.
The list of shit that actually could stop mass shootings is a mile long...but bullshit laws aren't going to have any effect on it. Remember, Columbine happened during the AWB
Agree with doing all that.
I still feel like some more regulations and laws could help. It's simply too easy to purchase firearms in the USA. Personally I'd like to see it more akin to how we license and regulate motor vehicles. I want people to need a license to purchase a firearm, and that license includes getting firearm safety instruction, a background check that's better than the current one we have in place, and requiring a range qualification too.
It would really help if people were better educated on guns in general, at the very least I think it'd help cut down on accidental gun deaths and suicides.
Remember, Columbine happened during the AWB
Likewise, I still had leaks after plugging half the holes in my boat. I couldn't explain it !
He’s rolling back gun regulation?
So that means we’ll have the right weapons to counter the SS coming door to door to look for “illegals”?
Yeah i was thinking it's awfully stupid (good for the people) of him to arm the proletariat...
A civil war is good for nobody.
Well duh, but fascism is only good for the extremely wealthy and i don't remember a time in history where fascists just listened to the working class.
Only if you're white
With deregulation, the FBI probably can’t finish the background check within the required time frame which means the buyer is automatically approved at end of said timeframe IIRC.
I’m not saying we should deregulate firearms at all, but if we’re doing it we might as well use the second amendment as originally intended
I’m not saying we should deregulate firearms at all, but if we’re doing it we might as well use the second amendment as originally intended
So for well-regulated militias?
Wanna join my militia homie? We got lotsa rules...
Yep, for each state to defend itself
And at the command of the governor of the state?
Yeah, nothing that could go wrong there.
It gives states the power to defend against incursion by other states.
So balkanization and warring states. On top of the neo-feudalism.
50 wealthy white dudes, each with their own fiefdom. Sounds amazing.
What's the point of having a federal government at that point?
Okay, what’s your suggestion? Capitulating to Trump for the sake of having a federal government?
Yep, training and discipline.
He’s rolling back gun regulation?
How come the headline used the noun "rollback" and not the verb "roll back"? It would seem Trump "rollbacked" the legislation, then.
(When journos can't spell, I do not trust them)