Discussion for article #240731
Surprised they had time today. What with that YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE business deal and all.
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That’s right, The biggest problem in America today is too few guns.
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BANG! Right?
A question for any constitutional experts out there-Can the federal government really forbid states to ban certain types of guns or ammunition?
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It’s not a particularly well-written policy paper. Much of it reads as if it came from one of Trump’s improvised speeches. I can’t imagine that he doesn’t have some educated, thoughtful individuals running his campaign - so I have to surmise that it was meant to appeal to the reasoning level of Trump’s supporters.
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Let’s make it a grand slam! End ALL restrictions on concealed carry…in Congress, Senate, White House, court houses, prison visiting areas, NRA head quarters, kindergartens, sporting events and so on. If more guns make us safer then we should be the safest fucking country on the planet. What could go wrong?
Will someone please ask these stupid SOBs? I really want to hear what they have to say!!!
LD
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Think the only way the Feds can do that is like they did with “21 as drinking age” - Deny funding unless the states comply. Same as the Feds did with the 55 mph speed limit. Adopt 55 or lose Federal highway funds.
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See, this is the reason I say that Rump will hang in there until January. He’s gone all in in terms of courting the crazy. He may be going after the worst of the worst but it doesn’t matter at this point. They make up the heart of the GOP base and this is what they want. Well, he just gave it to them and promised it will make 'Murca great again.
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“Shooting people I don’t like, or letting them shoot each other more easily, will make America great again.”
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Sure, but at least there was some link between teens drinking or speed and highway safety. What funding would this be linked to?
I really don’t know. In Heller, even Scalia said that states could regulate, not just outright ban. I think a Federal law would be found to be unconstitutional.
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Two policy papers: This one on expanded gun rights, and the immigration policy paper, which features mass deportations–and given the number of illegal immigrants in this country, the Powers That Be will need some help.
Sounds like the beginnings of an integrated policy vision for 'Murrika to me . . .
Not that it will make America great or make us any safer or any of that nonsense, but I agree with Trump on the policy here. Legalized alcohol and marijuana don’t make America great or make us any safer, either. If I want to carry a concealed handgun or drink some whiskey, I think I should be allowed to do so. (Preferably not at the same time—fortunately here in Texas you’re not allowed to take your handgun into a bar.)
This from a guy who travels with bodyguards.
Of course, Trump is self-funding so he doesn’t need to pander…
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Read Trump’s full guns policy paper here.
No, thanks. I just had dinner.
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Just like back in the old days when everyone had guns and settled their own disputes and we didn’t need police or courts…that’s why they called it the Mild Mild West.
Guns everywhere! (except in his hotels):
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/08/05/3688084/donald-trump-hotels-gun-free-zones/
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In 1934, if memory serves…and I haven’t researched this yet, the feds banned fully automatic weapons like the Thompson sub machine gun
But let me do some sleuthing.
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So yes the feds did regulate some types of guns by making certain things necessary like a federal license +fee. Ownership of the guns themselves are not banned, it’s just made way more time consuming and difficult and expensive to do it legally.
That Trump wants to do away with CC permits and such is plain idiocy in my view. He is pandering to the nut job fringe. It will lose him more votes than it will attract. With any other candidate in any other presidential election cycle this sort of mindless shit would sink a candidacy in a heartbeat.
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Yes, the feds banned full machine guns and those are still banned. But my question is can the feds annul state gun regs? I say, they can’t. If New York wants to ban a gun that the feds allow, they can do so. So far the courts have said the NY Safe act is constitutional, other than one small section.