Agreed. Good start. Not enough, but good start.

Can he do this w/o Congress?If so,why hasnt it been doine by other Admins? ** -- Wahoo Ron 02/21/2018 10:28AM

I think so. I think it hinges on an interpretation of "automatic" weapons -- Shenhoo 02/21/2018 10:39AM

If he does, it's sad to say but I think his motivation has nothing to do -- 81_Hokie 02/20/2018 9:24PM

Does his motivation matter more than the act? ** -- Hokie5150 02/21/2018 06:20AM

You can ban all you want. It still doesn't solve the root of the problem. -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:20PM

It would help if 1 salary could go further so parents could spend more time -- HokieDan95 02/20/2018 9:34PM

That is a very good answer. ** -- Shenhoo 02/20/2018 9:50PM

And yet, we willl never see those days again. ** -- hoothat 02/20/2018 10:24PM

Yes, those days are gone -- VaTechie 02/21/2018 10:19AM

I know I will take a hit on this. -- hoothat 02/21/2018 10:27AM

Well, no more than anyone else in this sub-thread. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/21/2018 11:49AM

Hey, we agree on something in this thread -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 10:45AM

Or they'll get a few propane tanks -- hoothat 02/21/2018 10:57AM

Or rent a truck, curious as to why the bocas of the world are -- TomKazanski 02/21/2018 3:48PM

Because the bocas of the world have better than room temperature IQs -- BocaHoo91 02/22/2018 08:51AM

So your metric for choosing to eliminate something is deaths -- TomKazanski 02/22/2018 09:41AM

As I figured, you are unable to focus enough to actually read -- BocaHoo91 02/22/2018 09:53AM

So let's just make it easy for them to wound massive numbers -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 11:23AM

No, my point was that Nuts will be Nuts -- hoothat 02/21/2018 11:56AM

I agree that nuts will be nuts. Determined nuts will find -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 12:05PM

So anyone with a facebook post of an AR15 is a loser -- TomKazanski 02/21/2018 3:50PM

Yes. Anyone posting for a tough guy photo with their AR-15 on -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 4:59PM

Good luck with that waiting thing ** -- hoothat 02/21/2018 12:13PM

Give you credit on willing to take a hit -- VaTechie 02/21/2018 10:45AM

But you just pointed out the irony. -- HWA 02/21/2018 11:28AM

I choose -- VaTechie 02/21/2018 11:57AM

You chose to live in Fauquier County, something I can’t afford to do... ** -- southdenverhoo 02/21/2018 12:00PM

Meant to put a smiley or something to indicate -- southdenverhoo 02/21/2018 12:06PM

My goal is to leave the area for some time now -- VaTechie 02/21/2018 12:18PM

I guess it depends on where in the NN and where in Richmond but I just -- southdenverhoo 02/21/2018 3:24PM

That is about right -- VaTechie 02/21/2018 4:20PM

My point was that there were less people in the labor market so their ... -- hoothat 02/21/2018 11:00AM

Kids are abused at school, in the playgrounds. What is your solution? -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 7:33PM

This would get me unfriended left and right on Facebook, but -- Tafkam Hokie 02/20/2018 7:57PM

Thank you. This comes closer to the root of the problem than -- NJHoo 02/20/2018 10:44PM

I read a rumor his gf had left him -- hoothat 02/20/2018 11:19PM

In 2016, his ex gf was dating another guy. Cruz threatened him, called -- THECZAR 02/21/2018 06:54AM

So there was some truth to it. thanks ** -- hoothat 02/21/2018 08:56AM

Very well said. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/20/2018 10:18PM

Bullying is a huge problem and always has been. Maybe social media -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 8:17PM

Yes, I was only speaking of the cases where a current (or very recent) -- Tafkam Hokie 02/20/2018 8:25PM

My solution is a mass campaign by the media to get parents to stay -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:44PM

Exactly you have what you hope works for you but there are -- Mg234 02/20/2018 10:01PM

Slut culture? What the hell you talking about? ** -- THECZAR 02/20/2018 9:01PM

Donald's whores, maybe? ** -- Shenhoo 02/20/2018 10:51PM

Slut culture is a national treasure! ** -- WahooRQ 02/20/2018 10:20PM

Nooooooooooo!!!!! Slut shaming. ** -- Hokieesith 02/20/2018 9:23PM

There’s something to be said about experience ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/20/2018 9:38PM

That campaign has ben going on for a long time. Divorce does not -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 7:50PM

There is no such campaign in the media after a shooting like this. -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:53PM

Lots of western countries have divorce, drugs, mental illness, violent -- KCHoo 02/20/2018 8:02PM

Oooh leave me alone you bully...ooh don't respond to me....oooh -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 8:00PM

Let’s do both. -- hooyorkcity 02/20/2018 7:24PM

So far the media and the public only talk about guns and that's it. We are -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:27PM

Oh bullshit. That is the same old deflection. You value your guns -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 7:38PM

This is why i choose not to respond to you. You prove yourself incapable -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:45PM

I did not mention politics. I just made an honest assessment of you -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 7:52PM

It's implied. You are trying to "win". -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:56PM

Win? That says a whole lot about you, that you would think -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 8:02PM

Honest question if you care to provide an honest response -- what do you -- WahooRQ 02/20/2018 7:37PM

I never mentioned divorce once. -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:48PM

I asked because it's hard to tell what exactly you ARE arguing. -- WahooRQ 02/20/2018 8:36PM

None of those factors apply in Europe? Really? -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 8:03PM

I can't say I know enough European statistics, but maybe there is SOME -- Late 80s Hokie 02/21/2018 09:01AM

Europe has had it's share of mass murder of late...maybe more with bombs -- Tuckahokie 02/20/2018 9:07PM

MAYBE more with religious extremism? -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 9:10PM

Imagine if we had homegrown ISIS here with our dumbass gun laws and culture ** -- WahooRQ 02/20/2018 10:31PM

So you disagree with Ballz and Hooyorkcity as well as myself that its a -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 8:11PM

European culture is most certainly not American culture. -- hooyorkcity 02/20/2018 8:58PM

IIRC, many countries in Europe and Asia have higher suicide and depression -- WahooRQ 02/21/2018 11:05AM

Yep, my convoluted way of saying even if it weren't guns that make the diff -- hooyorkcity 02/21/2018 1:33PM

You're the one using a factor that occurs in both Europe and the US -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 8:56PM

Signed a memo to Justice to propose regulations....we'll see what happens. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 5:54PM

That's great. We need and should do more. ** -- hooshouse 02/20/2018 5:39PM

If true, good for him ** -- wahoo138 02/20/2018 5:33PM

Agreed. Good start. Not enough, but good start. ** -- HoosWillWin 02/20/2018 5:48PM

When will it be enough? ** -- hoothat 02/20/2018 6:46PM

When you can't go into guns n' guitars and leave with a near military -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 9:27PM

So, quite a bit. -- hoothat 02/20/2018 9:34PM

Well, when the availability of the tool is the primary difference between -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 9:51PM

86 people died in the Nice attack. Just sayin. ** -- Hokieesith 02/20/2018 10:18PM

Well, your second paragraph has a mistruth in it. -- hoothat 02/20/2018 10:16PM

OK, I forget what I'm quoting here, but NEVER SHOOT TO WOUND -- Late 80s Hokie 02/21/2018 09:09AM

You are combining two seperate doctrines. -- hoothat 02/21/2018 09:32AM

Yes, I did see the rest of the thread below after posting this -- Late 80s Hokie 02/21/2018 10:12AM

My point was -- hoothat 02/21/2018 10:21AM

So you are saying it is supposed to be a weapon of mass annoyance? ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2018 07:54AM

Or this comment from a Trauma surgeon... -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 10:41PM

Tell that to the USAF training manual. -- hoothat 02/20/2018 11:08PM

Great show me the excerpt. It sounds like this whole thing is -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 11:25PM

I've never heard that myth -- hoothat 02/20/2018 11:34PM

Or this one linked by HowieT3 earlier today -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 10:30PM

Read this article and tell me you think the AR 15 is not designed to kill -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 10:26PM

It's standard M-16 training Boca... -- hoothat 02/20/2018 11:02PM

You think the person wounded by the AR-15 ultimately survives. The -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 11:19PM

Also -- hoothat 02/21/2018 12:04AM

No, I knew the purpose... -- hoothat 02/20/2018 11:25PM

The dude in the article said "HE'LL DIE OF THOSE INJURIES" -- BocaHoo91 02/20/2018 11:34PM

I have not... -- hoothat 02/20/2018 11:43PM

It seems you have been sucked into the myth... you're just not -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 06:04AM

Your right, I am too stupid to know the truth -- hoothat 02/21/2018 09:38AM

Tell that to the parents of the dead. hey it's okay, you daughter was just -- 111Balz 02/21/2018 10:39AM

5-20x is a statistical anomaly? 5 to 20x the gun homicide rate as -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 10:31AM

You are right about the percentages, it was late, I was wrong -- hoothat 02/21/2018 10:55AM

So you should not be stopped from purchasing anthrax spores because -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 11:32AM

Small arms. -- hoothat 02/21/2018 11:42AM

My bad on Anthrax, although it is illegal to own Anthrax that can be shown -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 11:51AM

I chose small arms -- hoothat 02/21/2018 12:07PM

No, I'm playing the odds game. Mass killings are rare. -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2018 12:42PM

You'll know. please let the rest of us know, when appropriate ** -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 8:10PM

I will? Hoowillwin should... -- hoothat 02/20/2018 8:14PM

You should know, it's never enough. -- Hokieesith 02/20/2018 7:58PM

When will what be enough? ** -- hooshouse 02/20/2018 7:06PM

Ask Hooswillwin ** -- hoothat 02/20/2018 8:12PM

Just can’t help himself. He is who he is. ** -- hooyorkcity 02/20/2018 7:20PM

Huh? You’ll need to cite source material buddy ** -- WahooRQ 02/20/2018 7:41PM

Look, it's my fan group. ** -- hoothat 02/20/2018 8:10PM

An effort to placate before real restrictions are proposed. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 4:59PM

Why not simply be glad that you're getting something that you wanted? ** -- Hokie5150 02/20/2018 5:10PM

Trump cures cancer. The left “what about heart disease”!!! -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/20/2018 5:20PM

What bullshit. Let us know when he does anything worthwhile, ok? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 5:29PM

Banning bump stocks is not worthwhile in your eyes? ** -- Hokie5150 02/20/2018 5:38PM

You know he hasn’t done that right? -- KCHoo 02/20/2018 6:21PM

If it's true it would be a first for Trump. (see below) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 5:44PM

If you ain't "getting Trump" you ain't an American. ** -- Hokieesith 02/20/2018 5:24PM

I don’t give a shit if Trump gets got or not, but damn he’s not the -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/20/2018 5:29PM

What I don.'the get is the cult like devotion -- Shenhoo 02/20/2018 6:59PM

Yeah I carry a torch for Trump. What a clown post ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/20/2018 7:04PM

You are like a cult leader man. I wonder how many posts you have on -- Hokieesith 02/20/2018 8:29PM

Who said he was the fucking devil? -- Shenhoo 02/20/2018 7:09PM

Damn near every lefty has called him the devil -- Cold Hoober Hoo 02/20/2018 7:24PM

No, that's just another tired deflection. calling someone out for bad -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 7:56PM

See Seattle's post below. -- Shenhoo 02/20/2018 7:38PM

No he's not the devil. That's mythical. He's a corrupt asshole. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 5:45PM

I think the issue here was that after the Vegas shooting -- hooyorkcity 02/20/2018 5:42PM

Absolutely true. But maybe it's a sign the NRA is getting spooked. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 6:15PM

This. Trying to calculate how to hold power -- Shenhoo 02/20/2018 7:00PM

Why be satisfied with a half-assed effort? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 5:14PM

You were fine with that idea on health care. ** -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 6:56PM

I wasn't, but nice try. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 7:24PM

Sure you were. I'll bet you touted it as a great move forward. -- psychobilly 02/20/2018 7:26PM

Well it was that. Probably the best that could be done at the time. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 11:20PM

It WAS a good move forward. And by the way, you are comparing instruments -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 7:36PM

You don't want bump stocks (and any similar device) banned? ** -- Hokie5150 02/20/2018 5:21PM

Sure I'll take it and still demand more. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 5:26PM

So, you got a real move in a positive direction. Why not appreciate it? -- Hokie5150 02/20/2018 5:29PM

If it happens I appreciate it. Ain't enough. Let's keep working on this -- 111Balz 02/20/2018 7:45PM

Good step. Are you supporting the move. -- Shenhoo 02/20/2018 7:13PM

No, all we got are words....they are cheap in the WH and change frequently. ** -- Chuck Taylor 02/20/2018 6:01PM

Really. lol ** -- hooshouse 02/20/2018 5:44PM

If it's true it would be a first for Trump. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/20/2018 5:37PM

He'll change his mind - ** -- WaxHoo 02/20/2018 4:55PM

He's broken your heart before and now your jaded ** -- HokieDan95 02/20/2018 6:14PM

I haven't believed anything he's said for 1.5 yrs & haven't been -- WaxHoo 02/20/2018 7:29PM

Lol! Probably right. I was encouraged at first, but you are prob right. ** -- HoosWillWin 02/20/2018 5:49PM

As I predicted. Let's see if this placates the anger. Doubt it. ** -- hooyorkcity 02/20/2018 4:51PM

I’m astounded ...........that he has a clue what they are ** -- TroublesHooter 02/20/2018 4:47PM

Agreed. Good start. Not enough, but good start.

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