President Obama's Gun Control Speech

I do not know whether President Obama was lying or just willfully ignorant, but his speech on gun control earlier today (or yesterday technically as it's 1:55 AM now) was littered with lies and distortions:

1) The reason ours is the only country having a problem with mass shootings right now is not due to guns because the guns have been available for decades. The mass shootings are very recent

2) Yes, you can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. And we don't tape your mouth shut when you go into said theater either. So his analogy with guns falls apart. Shooting people in theaters (or anywhere unless in self-defense) is illegal too, but we should not be disarming people.

3) Yes, this is in fact a slippery-slope to confiscation. He himself may not have that in mind, but a future administration/government could, and we have precedent for confiscation happening from registries.

4) Joe Manchin's "A" Grade from the NRA is meaningless. He is no friend of the Second Amendment. He is a man who talked about people having the right to hunt in regards to the Second Amendment and that magazine capacity should be limited because he only loads three rounds into the rifle when hunting.

5) The attacker in China with the knife had no intention of killing anyone. He just was cutting of ears. That is why his attack didn't kill anyone. It wasn't that he tried to kill people and failed. There are other knife attacks that have killed multiple people.

6) The Congress cut the funding to the CDC on researching gun violence because the CDC got caught red-handed engaging in lying to promote gun control

7) In addition, gun violence is not a public health issue, no matter what the public health and gun control people try to claim. Problems with cars, food, toys, etc...those are public health issues. Gun violence has nothing to do with problems with guns. It is a criminology issue. Criminologists are the real experts on the issue. Saying that gun violence is a public health issue would be like saying illegal street racing is a public health issue.

8) Research into guns in society by criminologists has constantly been occurring.

9) People on the Terrorist Watch List should not be denied their gun rights as that is a complete violation of due process. That is a very arbitrary list with no specific way to go about getting taken off of it. Ted Kennedy was put on it along with numerous other lesser-known, but wrong, people put onto it.

10) All actual Internet gun sales require a background check. What the President is confusing are private sales initiated through the Internet with being specific Internet gun sales. When we think of Internet commerce with regards to physical goods, all such commerce is a form of mail-order. It basically is like ordering from a catalog, except through a website. All mail-order sales of guns must occur through FFLs (Federal Firearms Licensee holders) who by law must conduct a background check on you before you can take possession of the gun.

Donald Trump

     So I am currently drawn between Donald Trump and the view that he will be a repeat of Barry Goldwater and the idea that he might win. I at first had thought that he was absolutely a guaranteed loss for the GOP, but now I am not quite sure. Should he win the nomination, it really will be interesting to watch, I have no doubt about that. I do not think that Trump has the requisite policy knowledge needed to be president, but he does have a lot of what my dad termed "combat executive experience," i.e. in making decisions on the fly and negotiating and having to basically "shoot from the hip," so-to-speak, and do so accurately. He could be a very good foreign policy president in that the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians would be a lot less inclined to mess with him I think. On the domestic front, I fear that he would try to fix Obamacare by suggesting we replace it with single-payer. I also do not know how much of a conservative he really is. If he just says whatever is needed to get elected (which he seems to do on certain issues while stating his own opinions on others), he may change his stances on things once elected.

     I do hope we get someone decent elected for the next presidency that is not Hillary. I do not think Hillary morally is proper for the presidency and the political positions that she supports I think will only further do damage to the country and infringe on people's rights.