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Former President Donald Trump's United States of America

Will never happen for real:

From link.
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TheKingEast said:
it was actually Obama who should be the one gloating because when he took over the economy was crap.
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And it was under Obama that the US debt grew by a record sum, and under whose tenure not a single business leader went to jail for the 2008 crisis and its associated fraud and misdeeds.
 
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MTown said:
To be fair, neither one of them has much to do with the state of the economy and never did.
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True. And neither of them will have done anything to reduce mass shootings. To be fair, I’m not sure any president can do anything.

The often-touted Australian gun reduction measures of the 1990s won’t work in the USA https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/02/australia-ambassador-on-why-gun-laws-cant-save-america/553655/

There are already more guns than people in the USA, so you can’t control much of their use through limiting acquisition anyway. Amending the Constitution will be impossible.

The best way forward for the USA to prevent mass shootings is to deal with what makes people perpetrate them. This means dealing with the poverty, desperation, inequality, paranoia about government, adherence to individual rights over collective responsibility, and mental illness seen in many shootings. Sure, Vegas doesn’t seem to fit the above, but it may still if it’s determined he shot up Vegas because of some obsession with the government.

For now, I’d be demanding that every school have two armed police or national guardsmen.
 
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Admiral Beez said:
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The best way forward for the USA to prevent mass shootings is to deal with what makes people perpetrate them. This means dealing with the poverty, desperation, inequality, paranoia about government, adherence to individual rights over collective responsibility, and mental illness seen in many shootings. Sure, Vegas doesn’t seem to fit the above, but it may still if it’s determined he shot up Vegas because of some obsession with the government....
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Not with the current administration.

See link.

Trump Undid Obama Rule That Added Mentally Ill People to Gun Check Register
 
Admiral Beez said:
For now, I’d be demanding that every school have two armed police or national guardsmen.
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A lot of schools do have either armed guards or police and yet school shootings still happen. Virginia Tech where 32 students were killed, has it's own police force. A guard armed with a revolver or semi-automatic handgun vs. an AR-15? Very little chance, he could have stopped it. Almost powerless against assault rifles that can fire 600+ rounds in less than a 1 minute.
 
gabe said:
A lot of schools do have either armed guards or police and yet school shootings still happen.
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Sure, I agree, the good guy with a gun counter is likely not to stop a determined shooter. In this latest case, the school’s armed guard never engaged the shooter http://www.businessinsider.com/armed-officer-florida-high-school-never-saw-shooter-2018-2

But what other options are there? There’s no way that rapid fire semi-automatic rifles will be restricted, and even if by some miracle some restrictions were put in place, there are already 300 million guns in USA homes for a shooter to choose from.

I think here at UT we have a yearning to force a cultural reality onto the USA that does not exist.
 
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Hahahaaa.....what a loser. Almost shits himself in that second vid and can't stop going on about what a hero he is in the first. The guy truly is a narcissistic c***.
 
Nice whatabout there. If anyone is envious of dictators and authoritarian leaders, it is Trump. He refuses to be critical of Putin, sucks up to Erdogan and now he is talking about someone being President for life. He is frustrated when the checks and balances of the US system stop him from doing authoritarian things on a daily basis.
 
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Videodrome said:
He is frustrated when the checks and balances of the US system stop him from doing authoritarian things on a daily basis.
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This is the exact same thing Trudea said he admired about China: the ability of the government to do whatever it pleased without pesky checks and balances getting the way.

Maybe Trump and Trudeau get on so well for a reason.
 
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