God forbid an innocent person ends up on a terrorist watch list and wants to buy a gun and cannot. To protect that person's rights, the Freedom Caucus will allow all people on the terrorist watch list to buy guns. And I don't understand why having a law enforcement person has only 3 days to present the case in court or upon such failure the person on the terrorist watch list can still buy a gun. It's probably a given such failure will occur since the logistical realities are that the gun purchase is occurring hundreds if not thousands of miles from where the individuals with knowledge of the terrorist watch list work, and such experts will not be notified that the gun purchase has been denied and the clock is ticking.
So really conservative GOP partisans are supporting terrorism with their policies.
Meanwhile, many GOP partisans are indifferent to terrorism inflicted upon Muslims. Twitter accounts don't light up in the same way as they do when there is domestic terrorism against Western Countries with Christian, Jewish and Muslim victims. And carpet bombing ISIS locations killing all the civilians living there; while some if not many of them are supporters of ISIS, they have the facade of innocence and their deaths will incite militancy in many young men in many countries. Not to mention create problems for the leaders of our Gulf allies to govern effectively. Only Muslims can eliminate ISIS. We can help, but we can't do it alone.
This is not unlike the "All Lives Matter" vs the "Black Lives Matter". While I happen to agree that "All Lives Matter", police have shot two black men in the last 48 hours during traffic stops when the black men were basically under the control of the police. Someone should be responsible for the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, he was in a police van in handcuffs, and he died. The shooting in Baton Rouge was basically an out of control white policeman thinking he could shoot his weapon because he wanted to. The shooting in Minnesota occurred last night and I have not seen a video, but the radio report I heard this a.m. seems to indicate another bad shooting.
I know the police have a tough job, but when the GOP partisans don't agree that all lives, including black lives, matter, it is no wonder that minorities have a tough time lining up behind GOP politicians that support such partisanship. And the police think they are above the law.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump doubles down on his admiration of Saddam Hussein. If Trump wins, I fear for what he will advocate our police and military do.
Finally, if the FBI had released this email stuff 8 months ago, maybe Joe Biden would have made a different decision. And then we Democrats would have had a good alternative to Hillary, who made a serious mistake with that email system (I would like to know who recommended it to her), but I never thought it was criminal. It was just stupid.
But not as stupid as any number of things Donald Trump has said, advocated, or otherwise supported. Did you know his wall will create lakes where streams dump into the Rio Grande, unless dams are built and where there are dams, you create paths for people to migrate along unless you put border guards at every dam, which means every stream. And there is no legitimate way to make Mexico pay for it.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel better for having written it all down.
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