08-13-2020, 05:37 PM
(08-13-2020, 05:24 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:(08-13-2020, 05:09 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(08-13-2020, 02:37 AM)ChiefD Wrote: I also see posts by people who think she and all the other democrats are going to take away people’s guns. Many conservatives thought the same of Obama. Did Obama take away your guns? Nope. And Biden is not gonna take your guns either. Congress cannot just say they’re getting rid of the second amendment. Not gonna happen.
Trump did better than try - he actually got a chip out of the 2A. I'm not sure where anyone sees that he did anything to "protect" it. Talk is just that - talk. Doing is something else altogether. Trump talks support of the 2A, but what he has done is otherwise.
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Do tell @"Ninurta". This is something I hadn't heard about.
He promulgated an Executive Order banning "bump stocks". Now granted, bump stocks are useless novelties, and a waste of money. You can't hit the broad side of a barn with one, even if you're inside the barn, but the act of banning them is another chunk out of the 2A, and a chunk out of the freedom to choose to waste ammo that Americans previously had. They don't have that power of choice any more.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’