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Originally Posted by hellopity
For one thing, he could have refrained from making this tragedy about Russia.
Thoughtful policy changes to protect children from gun violence cannot be achieved under this administration when we have a president who doesn’t have an iota of human decency. Look at what the shooting survivors are saying about his tweet: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/polit...ter/index.html
But again, if you have to pose the question you asked, I’m not sure you’ll ever understand. |
The guy got hammered non-stop for over a year about clusion and Russia. I listen to Sirius radio all day long and I switch between the BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC and FOX. Some stations talked about clusion every day even though there was no new news to report....they would speculate what might or could be happening and before you knew it, they were discussing it like it happened. Now the media is reporting that Trump is wrong about Russia interfering with our election...he thinks they didn't and we all know they did. Wait a minute, when did that become the big story, what about the clusion stuff...that's not news any more (at least not to the way they had been reporting it). I can understand why he's hung up on the Russia thing.
I see his tweet as criticism for the FBI. We've had to listen to Trump talk for a couple years now. He exaggerates like a salesman, he repeats him self constantly, he spits out little sound bites....all less than ideal for the way a President should speak. He's the President, deal with it...if you're going to interpet every word he says literally, plan on getting a lot more pi**ed off about him over the next 3 years (God help you if it ends up being 7). I was raised back east, went to college in SF...now in AZ for 30 years. I still remember how people from the NY area can communicate sometimes. When Trump mentioned Russia in his tweet, I took that with a grain of salt. Obviously investigating Trump is not the only thing they've been working on...it's sarcasm To me the tweet is not about Russia or politics...it's about the FBI screwinvg up big time. I've heard now they received 2 tips about the shooter that didn't get passed on to Miami...and the local police have been to his house 39 times.
As far as what the survivors are saying...they just.went through a lot. Personally, leading them to believe "thoughtful policy changes" are all we need to do to protect them from gun violence is a bunch of BS. There are over 325 million guns in this country. Thoughtful policy change would be a solution if the country was smaller (in size and population) and there were far fewer guns out already. You can make all the policy changes you want and it won't come even close to protecting children from gun violence. BTW, I've never owned a gun and could care less about the NRA or the second amendment, although I don't have a problem with either.
The country has been arguing over gun control (policy changes) for some time now...as though it waa the answer to tbe problem. Each party blames the other and neither one has done crap to fix it. IMO, neither one does anything because they know it's not going to help and they don't want to be proven wrong or blamed for passing legislation that didn't fix the problem.
Ironically, the administration that lacks human decency, wants to completely ban the mechanism that allows you to convert a semi auto to an auto. Something else ironic, gun sales reached record highs under the last administion. Under this administration, they've dropped 25-40% depending upon the manufacterer....I'm not sure but, I think it's Remington that's filing for bankruptcy.
BTW, there's no reason to make a post personal by insulting my intelligence. I posed the question to point out that if you hate him and/or the GOP, it really doesn't matter what he does right because you hate him. When it comes to human decency, politicians only have it if it favors them getting re-elected and when doesn't it they know not to talk about it. I will give Trump credit for his family....if you're a multi-billionaire that lacks human decency, you don't end up with kids like his. For those that hate him, you'll find plenty of fault in what I just said.
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