Pres. candidate Pete Butigieg Wants More Background Checks, Reinstatement of Social Security Gun Ban

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Is he willing to nuke people who refuse?:uhoh:

The "social security" ban is a insidious idea. I know liberals will be liberals and THEY WANT OUR GUNS (!!!!!!!!!) but ..... geeeeeesh.
 
There’s too much room for government abuse with the social security thing, but...

It never ceases to amaze me the veterans I come in contact with through work that are 70-100% PTSD rated, and drawing social security, claiming they’re all sorts of inept, broken, constantly suicidal and need the disability because they can’t function AT ALL in daily life, but are totally okay to own guns and go verbally crazy when they end up having their guns taken.

Having their cake and eating it too. Be careful how broken you present yourself to be for that government check.

If I could say one thing about it - if it’s going to be, the due process needs to be the first thing, not the last thing in the process. They need to make the case you’re unsafe to a court, not just some internal bureaucracy.
 
Our work is cut out for us. But it is hard being a single issue voter. Some awfully good people have to be cast off just for being on the wrong side of this one issue. And then what are we left with? It ain’t pretty.
 
Our work is cut out for us. But it is hard being a single issue voter. Some awfully good people have to be cast off just for being on the wrong side of this one issue. And then what are we left with? It ain’t pretty.

Being they all in pockets of lobby groups, billionaire oligarchs, corporations I will likely vote for Trump that way at least my investment portfolio will likely look good. Something is better than nothing. I can't count on either party to do anything meaningful to help the working man.
 
As Winona Ryder once said in a teen movie, "It's nice to want things."

NO, I REFUSE.

I will admit realizing that most out there still think casting a vote will make things better makes me feel warm, cuddly and safe.
 
It's a given that every Democratic candidate will be antigun, to a greater or lesser degree. They have to play to their base, to have any hope of getting the nomination. (It pains me to say this.) However, the degree of difference among the candidates could become significant. For example, they all say they want to "ban" "assault weapons." Whether that includes grandfathering of existing weapons could be key. Given the huge number already out there, a "ban" with grandfathering could be meaningless. In fact, owners with the foresight to stockpile them could profit handsomely.

If all "Mayor Pete" is proposing is background checks and a prohibition on guns for mentally incompetent Social Security recipients, that would make him one of the milder Dem candidates in regard to guns.

I've been saying that you're going to hear a lot of antigun rhetoric from Democratic candidates in the nomination phase of the contest, but they will turn strangely silent when it comes to the general election. The reason is that they have to carry the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and/or the Sun Belt states of Florida and Arizona, and there are a lot of gun owners in those states that the Democrats dare not alienate.
 
Come on, I had to Google his name to find out who he is
He's in the top 5 or 6 of the Democratic candidates right now, according to the Real Clear polling averages. (The others being Biden, Sanders, Harris, O'Rourke, and Warren.)
 
Being they all in pockets of lobby groups, billionaire oligarchs, corporations I will likely vote for Trump that way at least my investment portfolio will likely look good. Something is better than nothing. I can't count on either party to do anything meaningful to help the working man.
You do know that the trajectory of the economy and stock markets changed not at all from Obama to Trump, right? If you take the dates off the graph, there is no way to tell when the changeover occurred. But how could that be? Fake news!
 
So, no one wants to talk about the policy? No wonder the divide is widening.
 
They are calling him the white Obama. Hopefully the Dems will beat each other bloody during the primary process and spend most of their donor's money.

You can skip "white". The Mother of Barack Hussain Obama was of European American descent. It's heartwarming to see this time the voters will have several candidates to choose from.
 
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You can skip "white". The Mother of Barack Hussain Obama was of European American descent. It's hartwarming to see this time the Democrats will have several candidates to choose from. As you recall last time they tried to coronate "Hillary the Great". You know, when Englishman lived in mud huts members of that family were important hamlet dwellers.
I despise our primary system. The entire country should hold primaries on the same day with runoffs as needed. This state-by-state thing is just stupid. As if Iowa and NH have any more significance than other states. It is absurd. One popular vote tally for the whole country and then the all the candidates who make up the top 50% of the vote go into runoff one week later after another debate of the remaining candidates. And so on until there is only one standing. That’s your candidate. No convention BS. Neat and clean.
 
It's a given that every Democratic candidate will be antigun, to a greater or lesser degree.
"Ban everything now!" versus "Ban everything RIGHT NOW!!!" is a distinction without a difference.

The Democrats have thrown the Jews under the bus. The idea that they'll show one iota more of deference to gun owners whom they're allowed to EXPLICITLY hate is contemptible.
 
I live about 20 miles from South Bend. Do not underestimate him. He is super smart and far more savvy than the chimps he is running against

Notice that he doesn’t get into the verbal diatribes the other socialists do

Think John Kennedy, only gay
 
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