strogg wrote:He's a populist. Plain and simple. I don't agree with much of anything he spewed out today. On exception is: no gun reform will pass if national reciprocity is still in the bill. Removing schools from the GFZ will also unlikely pass if it's in the bill. At least that's something we can cling to. If those make it into the gun reform thing, it will be huge leverage against the bad provisions, such as fix-NICS (which is a whole lotta nothing), 21-year age limit (ehhh... that will be problematic), and the bumpstock thing (that can be devastating if the Dems get to word it). I can't imagine what will become of any sort of bill at this point. Time to play political chess.imkopaka wrote:RicoTX wrote:Yeah I caught that too in reference to mental health.Syntyr wrote:Trump may just be playing chess with the Rats but this kind of talk makes me really uneasy!!!
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
This stuff right here is why I was so against voting for Trump. I still did it because the alternative was the Hildabeest, but I suspected from the start that his allegiance was too easily swayed. He flipped between Democrat, Republican, and Independent so many times over the past few decades that I asserted we couldn't trust him to remain conservative once he was in office. The proof is in the orange pudding.
Is this simply a play because he knows nothing will pass anyways? Is this a truck to keep eyes off DACA?