The Squawkbox: Oct. 9, 2017

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Bump stocks were approved as a safe, nonlethal product during the Obama administration. Carlton must have missed that fact,

I’m sure Carlton Fletcher will get a lot of nasty mail from people who think name-calling is clever, but he is dead-on about the NRA, which is just a stunningly effective advertising tool for the gun industry.

Until privacy laws are changed, no background check can be truly accurate. For the laws currently on the books to work as intended, the government needs to access all criminal data bases, all medical records, all court orders and all court convictions. All governmental and medical bodies need to be forced to keep these records updated.

Yes, squawker, I believe the man who feeds the cats at Burger King has already earned his wings. As for the cats showing up where people feed them, somebody’s thrown the cats away. Somebody’s got to feed them. They’re lives, too, and they didn’t get there on their own.

It is really sad Albany’s holiday parade is charging nonprofits and small businesses $100 to be in the parade. Fee jumped from $30 three years ago. Our small nonprofit cannot afford this fee. Our organization has spent plenty to have our entry ready. We have participated in this parade since its inception, but no longer.

I enjoyed the squawks about the siren and the national anthem.

Once again, your president is out of touch with reality. We just had the worst mass shooting in American history, yet they’re not talking about gun control. They’re talking about repealing birth control.

Just once, I want Maury to open the DNA envelope and say, “You are not the mother!” Probably do the kid a big favor.

Lies, lies and more lies. Secretary Tillerson did not call President Trump a moron.

Could someone tell me why the boys at Westover High are allowed to wear their pants below their knees?

Well, now the family’s going out now to buy Easter outfits and Easter bonnets. Hope we see the Easter bunny soon.

Why can’t Dawson get some kind of grant or help or something to replace the waterlines? We’ve got a crew that don’t do nothing but dig up and fix leaky water pipes. Don’t do no good to resurface. You have to dig them right up.

You can count on three things happening every day — the sun rises, the sun sets and Trump says something stupid.

Rex Tillerson for president. He’s a smart man.

For the charter school in Edison, y’all just keep on fighting. You’ll get there. You have accomplished a lot. Thank you for what you’re doing for the children.

Trump can’t sign a bill, squawker, until it passes over Schumer’s and Nancy’s lies about the rich. Did your team raise your taxes too high for you?

Email of the week: “If you have a gun, you can rob a bank. If you have a bank, you can rob everyone.”

Ann Coulter nailed it again. The media once again portrays white males as mass shooters. How quickly we forget the many gang-related drive-by shootings, the Pulse shootings, Fort Hood shootings, San Bernardino and many more by non-whites. Media hypocrites!