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To: i-node who wrote (1360942)	6/3/2022 5:59:06 PM
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More jobs were lost during the Trump administration than any other in history. Approximately 4 million fewer people were employed from January 2017 to September 2020, according to the most recent publicly available data. usatoday.com As far as Afg is concerned, Trump SURRENDERED to the Taliban.. Trump agreed to release 5000 Taliban prisoners held by the Afghan govt without consulting the Afghan govt.

To: i-node who wrote (1360942)	6/3/2022 5:59:45 PM
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Rep. Ken Buck: We Can't Regulate Assault Weapons Because Raccoons Eat Chickens The Colorado Republican appears to care more about chickens than children. By Ryan Grenoble Jun. 3, 2022, 02:08 PM EDT Please, think of the children chickens. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence Thursday, Republican Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.) dismissed a proposal to regulate AR-style rifles, the weapon of choice for mass shooters, as “small-minded.” Why? Because without them, Buck claimed, ranchers would be completely defenseless against varmint. “Blaming the gun for what’s happening in America is small-minded,” he said. “In rural Colorado, an AR-15 is a gun of choice for killing raccoons before they get to our chickens,” Buck added. “It is the gun of choice for killing a fox, it is a gun that you control predators on your ranch, on your farm, on your property.” If it sounds preposterous, that’s because it is. As this NRA story detailing a prolific raccoon hunter makes abundantly clear, a small caliber, lever-action rifle is more than capable of keeping the animal at bay. Buck’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment regarding how many chickens the life of one child is worth. Astute readers will recall that Buck has an AR-15 mounted on the wall of his Capitol Hill office. In 2020, he used it threaten Joe Biden, then a presidential candidate, and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke. Neither of them are raccoons. Buck’s claim drew ridicule from his colleagues across the aisle. “Oh — Why didn’t y’all just say so? We have to protect the chickens from the raccoons. Cool cool,” tweeted Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.). “So that’s why our kids have to die in their classrooms. So we can protect the chickens. Makes total sense now.” huffpost.com As a former country boy, I will say that I've shot a variety of varmints with .22's. Now I know that as far as bore size goes, a .22 and a .223 is the same. But they're NOT the same at all - see below. A .22 is made for that. A .223 would worry me about over penetration. Plus the cost of ammo and guns is much more reasonable for the .22. You might shoot the coon and a few chickens and whatever is on the other side of the chicken coop.