I think it's another game of rope-a-dope. Trump is willing to accept SENSIBLE gun control, will push for it in Congress, and when Democrats want to go WAY over the line of "sensible," Trump gets the points for being the sensible one and the Democrats prove how out-of-step they are. If it goes through, he wins. If it gets stopped by Democrats, he wins.
All we can do is take what he says and recognize that he is "negotiating." Reading between the lines, he thinks there is room for "background checks" and "red flag laws" that will not hamper legal citizens but will hamper crazy people, or at least some of them. It will also get the stirred-up press and public off his case about it. But of course the Democrats won't support anything sensible, so he wins either way. He has always got the perfectly valid argument that what the Democrats propose would not have stopped a single one of these shootings, and I think people buy that argument. YMMV.
but for some reason, given his style.... I trust him on this issue more than i would ever trust somebody named Romney or Bush. When Trumps plants his flag, he defends it.
Other GOPers pretend to while they wither from media attacks... surrender a "core principle" and offer some words of bullshit to The Base that only somebody from Harvard would take seriously.
This is why Trump coasted to the nomination. GOP voters no longer had any reason to trust any of the GOP politicians.
I can never tell with him. But I have many questions. What's considered reasonable when it comes to gun regulation? And what's sensible when it comes to regulating pollution in keeping air and water cleaner, clean, or just pollution reduction?
Very rich people reach a certain age and they get very concerned about their "legacy," or whatever you call it. They start looking for ways to spend their immense wealth in philanthropy, and thus you have Carnegie libraries, Duke University, the Gates Foundation, and on and on. Trump is doing exactly that, which is why he donates his Presidential salary to charity. He's trying to pass his wealth around and do some good. And brother, does this country need it!
He is at heart a problem-solver, so he is going to find "reasonable" solutions to the problems of the country. Our problems largely stem from the fact that our politicians are NOT problem-solvers, and tend in all things to make problems worse. For example, we passed a law years ago that guns are not allowed within 300 ft (maybe yards) of a school-- they're gun-free zones. So where do almost all mass shootings occur? In gun-free zones! Sensible gun control? None of the laws being pushed so hard would have stopped any recent mass shooting. Period. There may be reasonable ways to improve the background check system, and Trump knows them. There are already red flag laws on the books. But Democrats want to create a crisis and want to go far beyond anything reasonable or sensible. We'll see.
Same with "pollution." The EPA refuses to do a real cost-benefit analysis on their "endangerment finding" of CO2. They can't, because CO2 does not endanger human health. You have about 125 times the concentration of CO2 in your lungs right now, as are in the air around you. A real cost-benefit for pollution controls ought to be an absolute requirement, and we are far beyond that reasonable standard. Trump is bringing it to heel.
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I think it's another game of rope-a-dope. Trump is willing to accept SENSIBLE gun control, will push for it in Congress, and when Democrats want to go WAY over the line of "sensible," Trump gets the points for being the sensible one and the Democrats prove how out-of-step they are. If it goes through, he wins. If it gets stopped by Democrats, he wins.
Truth be told, I have no idea what he believes about guns....and neither does Trump for that matter.
All we can do is take what he says and recognize that he is "negotiating." Reading between the lines, he thinks there is room for "background checks" and "red flag laws" that will not hamper legal citizens but will hamper crazy people, or at least some of them. It will also get the stirred-up press and public off his case about it. But of course the Democrats won't support anything sensible, so he wins either way. He has always got the perfectly valid argument that what the Democrats propose would not have stopped a single one of these shootings, and I think people buy that argument. YMMV.
yeah, everything those three said. Spot on.
but for some reason, given his style.... I trust him on this issue more than i would ever trust somebody named Romney or Bush. When Trumps plants his flag, he defends it.
Other GOPers pretend to while they wither from media attacks... surrender a "core principle" and offer some words of bullshit to The Base that only somebody from Harvard would take seriously.
This is why Trump coasted to the nomination. GOP voters no longer had any reason to trust any of the GOP politicians.
Speaking of planting his flag. I hear we want to buy Greenland now. I hear this is President Trump's counteroffer to the Green New Deal.
Well, if Climate Change is as real and serious as those nut-baller Warmists believe, it would make a heckuva Trump golf course in the near future. :-)
I can never tell with him. But I have many questions. What's considered reasonable when it comes to gun regulation? And what's sensible when it comes to regulating pollution in keeping air and water cleaner, clean, or just pollution reduction?
Very rich people reach a certain age and they get very concerned about their "legacy," or whatever you call it. They start looking for ways to spend their immense wealth in philanthropy, and thus you have Carnegie libraries, Duke University, the Gates Foundation, and on and on. Trump is doing exactly that, which is why he donates his Presidential salary to charity. He's trying to pass his wealth around and do some good. And brother, does this country need it!
He is at heart a problem-solver, so he is going to find "reasonable" solutions to the problems of the country. Our problems largely stem from the fact that our politicians are NOT problem-solvers, and tend in all things to make problems worse. For example, we passed a law years ago that guns are not allowed within 300 ft (maybe yards) of a school-- they're gun-free zones. So where do almost all mass shootings occur? In gun-free zones! Sensible gun control? None of the laws being pushed so hard would have stopped any recent mass shooting. Period. There may be reasonable ways to improve the background check system, and Trump knows them. There are already red flag laws on the books. But Democrats want to create a crisis and want to go far beyond anything reasonable or sensible. We'll see.
Same with "pollution." The EPA refuses to do a real cost-benefit analysis on their "endangerment finding" of CO2. They can't, because CO2 does not endanger human health. You have about 125 times the concentration of CO2 in your lungs right now, as are in the air around you. A real cost-benefit for pollution controls ought to be an absolute requirement, and we are far beyond that reasonable standard. Trump is bringing it to heel.
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