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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump just compared being a cop in a high stress shooting situation to playing golf.
He compared being in a gun fight to playing high stakes golf and making a put.
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Trump just compared being a cop in a high stress shooting situation to playing golf. (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2018
OP
Not exactly. He said he wants people with natural talent for shooting armed at schools.
Shrike47
Feb 2018
#1
He compared being in a gun fight to playing high stakes golf and making a put.
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2018
#2
Well, in one scenario you are facing death, in the other you are facing one more stroke on your
Fred Sanders
Feb 2018
#3
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)1. Not exactly. He said he wants people with natural talent for shooting armed at schools.
Like a natural golfer, a natural shooter will be better than average seems to be his reasoning. The number of natural shooters who are called to teach is apparently larger than I knew.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. He compared being in a gun fight to playing high stakes golf and making a put.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. Well, in one scenario you are facing death, in the other you are facing one more stroke on your
scorecard and loss of a big bet, so pretty much the same stress.
What exactly is a "natural shooter", how many teachers would qualify and who is the talent scout for that?
The more a sane person thinks about arming teachers the more the sane person becomes insane just thinking about that insanity.
underpants
(182,829 posts)4. They are just alike
Except in golf everyone has to be quiet and players have to wait their turn.
sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)5. Is he looking for 'natural shooters' or 'natural killers'?
flotsam
(3,268 posts)6. If killers, Only "Natural Born Killers" would do
I should link too a Woody Harrelson movie still but you get my drift...