Rest and Relaxation

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Trump isn’t feeling the love in England right now.  In fact, according to him, he downright feels unwelcome there.  Who would have figured that?  But as it turns out, even Trump can take a hint if you throw enough protestors and a literal blimp of him as a giant whining baby at him.  Overall, it was a pretty rough weekend for Trump, with the hacker indictments directly mentioning him as inciting the DNC hack, dog whistling White Supremacists across Europe, and just tons of uncomfortable encounters with leadership, and I expect he was planning of things slowing down once he arrived at his resort in Scotland.  After all, the people of Scotland totally love Trump, right?

The New Extremists

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Here is the thing about the Conservative stance on gun control:  Their argument is only reasonable if they are arguing against what gun control advocates actually want.  People like Tucker Carlson are demonizing kids because they insist that those masterminding the gun control movement want guns banned for everyone.  That’s what poor old Tucker means when he says that advocate for, and I quote “punishing everyone.”  But let me assure you, Tucker Carlson and everyone telling you gun control advocates are trying to take away your security are employing an age old fallacy called the Strawman Fallacy.  You see, Gun Control by definition does not mean “Gun ban” or “Gun Confiscation”.  99.9% of people who advocate gun control, just want firearms to be harder to obtain for people who would misuse them.  For the average American, who practices responsible gun ownership, realistically, if gun control advocates got what they wanted, that person’s life would not be affected.  Reasonable legislation and restriction should not be a conversation that is so hard to have.  But it will continue to be difficult if Tucker Carlson and his Fox News Pundit friends and basically anyone the NRA donates to, continues to successfully sell a fake argument and labeling kids afraid for their lives as “extremists”.