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lostnfound

(16,162 posts)
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 06:43 PM Feb 2018

Schools as armed camps. Fing Chuck Todds picture painting..

Oh he is SO good at spinning conversations rightward. That’s the solution he’s talking about. The “solution is going to look like more guns, armed guards and metal detectors”? Oh, he will say that isn’t HIS opinion, he was just expressing the views of republicans that might want to actually do something. Parents aren’t going to want armed camps, he admits. But he’s shifting the ground. Now he’s asking “what’s realistic when it comes to this issue?”

1. “Schools as armed camps” is a FAILURE.
2. It does NOTHING to stop guns at concerts, soccer games, movie theatres.

“If we had a magical way to search social media...” another f’ing straw man, Chuck. COMPANIES DO BACKGROUND CHECKS THAT INCLUDE SOCIAL MEDIA ALL THE TIME. You can’t get a JOB without one. That doesn’t require MAGIC, Chuck. It requires the will to do it.

But we had an assault weapons ban from 1994 to 2004, which the Democrats gave us, until the Republicans took it away. That’s not MAGIC either.

But hey, don’t let the facts interfere with your agenda, which is to chronically paint the democrats as weak or ineffective or idealistic, and to paint Washington as a bipartisan gridlock caused by both parties.

One edit: his “I’m obsessed segment” afterward was somewhat better but I am tired of his constant false equivalence and his lack of fairness in recognizing the strengths of Democrats.

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Schools as armed camps. Fing Chuck Todds picture painting.. (Original Post) lostnfound Feb 2018 OP
He irritates me to no end...n/t monmouth4 Feb 2018 #1
He's so damn uninformed uponit7771 Feb 2018 #2
As bad as that is, Ari Melber shit the bed today BannonsLiver Feb 2018 #3

BannonsLiver

(16,313 posts)
3. As bad as that is, Ari Melber shit the bed today
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 07:58 PM
Feb 2018

With a long false equivalency, both sides diatribe about how Dems have handled gun control issues in the past. Chuck Toad is a dolt. I expect more from Melber.

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