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You make an excellent point. We've been watching Trump getting the two sides together this past year to pass bipartisan legislation. It may not have been as successful as it should be for true bipartisanship, but it sure has been much better than any other President in recent history. He's now turned his focus on 2A. Hopefully, that's all this talk is, and we won't end up on the short end of the stick at the end.

imkopaka wrote:

RicoTX wrote:

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.

Yeah I caught that too in reference to mental health.

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.

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.

If there's one thing I learned about politics, that is never to rely on party lines for any legislation. Things have a way of going sideways. Think about it. Obama with the national parks carry? Regan and the Hughes Amendment? Basically, the fight is never over. Fortunately, for now, it's just a lot of noise. We'll see how it progresses.