As a child of the ’80s, I remember well how pumped I would get watching The Karate Kid when Joe Esposito’s made-for-montage inspirational rock anthem “You’re the Best” kicked in.
Like Joni Mitchell (and Janet Jackson) once mused, “. you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Last year, many of us suddenly realized how good we had it
the budgets were cut for the atf. i get that, too. it doesn t change the fact that we can t enforce the laws. it seems almost like a placating thing to add more laws. he is adding for more money, calling for more money in order to do more background checks. i thought he made an interesting point when he said every gun owner in thisself, you yourself taya, included, had to pass a background check check. why object to expanding the background checks for online sales or gun shows? did that logic make sense to you? i think that s the point overall, all of these things sound really good. if when he talks about hey, it s common sense, i completely understand that. common sense to one person might be something different to another. i know he was making sort of a joke with when anderson said something about some people think this is leading to taking away all guns. it s a big conspiracy. it s easy to make that joke. i don t feel anderson had the
i think we re polarized on this issue. i also think it s not necessarily the open dialogue that we would like. i think that both anderson and cnn were hoping it could be something where one person asks a question, the president responds and we were able to get a remark back. unfortunate unfortunately, people get long-winded, myself included and it doesn t end up that way. the president had an opportunity to say what he felt in return. i think there s more to the story. what he might say common sense, when he might say let s do something, let s try something. and it s a background check or something like that, i get it. i really do. the problem is that we re not enforcing the laws that we have, the federal prosecution rate is at 40%. that means 60% of the people who aren t abiding by background checks or abiding the law, what s the point of it? i know that frustrates him.
time to adequately respond in the way that he could say, no, no, no, that s not what i was talking about. i don t think anybody thinks one president will have the power to develop a big plot nor would they want to. i think the thing that anderson was trying to present is that there s a part of our population who s afraid that these are just steps that take away more and more of our freedoms. i think we can all agree in our last 50 years our freedoms have been cut back substantially. it s just a matter of if you agree they should be taken back. you were able to get a gun. you re a gun owner. there are more than 320 million guns in this country. how is the access to guns being cut back? i know that s something that gun rights supporters say. but, you know, there are as many guns in this country as there are people. how do you feel that access is being denied? it s a fair point. we d have to get into the minutia of it.