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dickthegrouch

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20. Democrats should write a bill to define "National Emergency"

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #17)

Fri Jan 9, 2026, 08:45 PM

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It should contain no National emergency exists until at least as many law "enforcement" have been injured or killed as civilians by other gun-toting civilians in some long period of time (sort of like a waiting period to buy a gun in the first place). Such injuries and killings, apparently, do NOT constitute a national emergency currently.

Additionally, no law, regulation, or funding change should be capable of being enacted or implemented in less than 6 months to allow for an orderly transition of management (power), absent an actual emergency (as defined per the above).

We wait between elections and the transition of power, the government should have similar restrictions imposed on it.

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