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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (192950)	2/2/2021 9:29:29 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358343

You would not have defended what happened to this woman five years ago imo. 5 years ago, no group was engaging in insurrection against the US and storming the Capitol Building, howling for the heads of the VP and others.

To: i-node who wrote (192950)	2/3/2021 12:21:30 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358343

You would not have defended what happened to this woman five years ago imo. My position on stand-your-ground has changed. The Treyvon Martin incident clarified it. I came to support allowing a gun in one's house for protection against home invasion. I came to support the SC's decision on guns in DC. But that goes back more than five years. My position on trespassing is one of those things that you "learn in kindergarten." My dad taught me as a small child how to walk on a sidewalk and one of the little things I learned was to stay on the sidewalk when going around a corner, not cut a couple of feet off by walking on someone's grass. So, when the sign says "no trespassing" or "employees--or whatever--only" or "closed," I don't go there. Then there was my experience as a young military wife five decades ago. Military bases have places that you don't enter and even more so when they are guarded. You don't mess with military police. And it doesn't matter if you're an officer or an officer's wife. People guarding federal assets don't mess around. So, I don't know why you would think I would viewed this differently five years ago. Because she's a woman? Because she's a Trumpist? One can feel sympathy for her without abandoning principles. To do otherwise would be hypocrisy.