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When will Donald Trump call for ban on white male extremists?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall meeting in the Convocation Center on the University of South Carolina Aiken campus in Aiken, S.C. Dec. 12, 2015. Trump earned 11 Four-Pinocchio ratings for the most outlandish comments, far more than any other candidate, in The Washington Post’s annual fact-check list.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall meeting in the Convocation Center on the University of South Carolina Aiken campus in Aiken, S.C. Dec. 12, 2015. Trump earned 11 Four-Pinocchio ratings for the most outlandish comments, far more than any other candidate, in The Washington Post’s annual fact-check list. RICHARD SHIRO Associated Press

Donald Trump enthusiastically promotes hate and fear in the land of the free and home of the brave. Two terrorists in California result in Trump's calling for a ban on Muslims entering the country and a possible database that would list American Muslims.

A partial list of two decades of non-Muslim, American white male terrorists includes: 1995, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier and the Oklahoma City bombing; 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and the Columbine High School shooting; 2011, Jared Loughner and the Tucson, Ariz. shooting, including Rep. Gabriel Gifford; 2012, Michael Page and the Sikh Temple Wisconsin shooting; 2012, Adam Lanza and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting; 2013, James Holmes, Aurora, Colo. theater shooting; 2014, Frazier Cross (Miller), Kansas City Jewish Community Center shooting; 2015, Dylan Roof, Charleston, S.C. church shooting; 2015, Robert Dear, Planned Parenthood, Colorado Springs shooting.

When will Trump, and his large plurality of Republicans, ask for a ban on non-Muslim, white male extremists entering the country and a possible database that would list all American white male extremists?

Bill McGrath

Bradenton

This story was originally published December 19, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "When will Donald Trump call for ban on white male extremists? ."

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