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NRA: President Trump Assured Us He Isn't Going After the Second Amendment
Townhall.com ^ | August 21, 2019 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 08/21/2019 6:50:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/21/2019 6:50:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Lose the 2nd and expect to lose the rest.


2 posted on 08/21/2019 6:52:49 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin

Trump achieved his goal, getting by the news cycle to where people have moved on from the shootings.


3 posted on 08/21/2019 6:55:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: unixfox

“Lose the 2nd and expect to lose the rest.”

That’s the left’s main goal.


4 posted on 08/21/2019 7:07:20 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Kaslin

Party pimps amnesia.. Does the bumpstock ban ring a bell.
Then throw in red flag rules proposal. That establishes a pretty clear pattern.
He is anti 2A. NOAA, the weather folks can have fully automatic weapons, why can’t we?


5 posted on 08/21/2019 7:08:24 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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“Party pimps amnesia.. Does the bumpstock ban ring a bell. Then throw in red flag rules proposal. That establishes a pretty clear pattern. He is anti 2A. NOAA, the weather folks can have fully automatic weapons, why can’t we?”

Exactly!

The President may falsely believe there was no cost in the bumpstock ban. There will be and a half a million bumpstock owners staying home in 2020 could mean no second term. If the President signs ANY gun control measure he will not be reelected.

We also need to keep pointing out there is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to arm non military government agencies in ANY capacity much less with military arms.

6 posted on 08/21/2019 7:20:45 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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As an aside, Mr. LaPierre. Show some magnanimity and grace and resign any association or profit from the NRA. Your greed has left the entire organization suspect with its members and, since the left has admitted their intent to erase the 2nd, we need all the strength we can muster.

Do the right thing. Don't be a jerk.

7 posted on 08/21/2019 7:33:49 AM PDT by LouAvul
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NRA: DUMP LAPIERRE NOW!
8 posted on 08/21/2019 7:40:51 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I,m with you on that
9 posted on 08/21/2019 7:47:22 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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“Anti-Second Amendment advocates have also demanded a ban on semi-automatic weapons (which is essentially every firearm in America)”

Ludicrous. Far more revolvers, bolt action, lever action and pump action weapons in America. The author is ignorant of “American gun culture”.

That said, I like the way Trump handled this. He gave an amorphous, non-committal “yes” to the gun grabbers in the heat of the moment, then started the “slow walk” and qualifying statements.

And now it’s fizzled in the minds of America’s mothers.

And nothing will come out of the passionate outrage on the left.


10 posted on 08/21/2019 7:47:28 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Yo-Yo
Should have added

http://www.savethe2a.org/

11 posted on 08/21/2019 7:48:47 AM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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To: precisionshootist

That’s right, throw the whole government over to the far left and make sure the 2nd Amemendment is totally destroyed. That’ll show them. Liberal Supreme Court and lower courts, reestablish all the regulations Trump eliminated and pull down the wall and open the borders. All for the sake of bump stocks that 9 out of 10 gun owners couldn’t even tell you what they are. BRILLIANT!!


12 posted on 08/21/2019 7:50:04 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: unixfox

Due to our complacency, unfortunately we’ve already lost much of the Second and the rest.


13 posted on 08/21/2019 7:56:04 AM PDT by drypowder
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Seriously, you’re trying to equate the next election to a choice of the lesser of two evils. There’s a clear choice for president next year, and it’s the man presently in the office. His stand on the second amendment may not be rock solid as everyone would like, but to stay home and allow one of the socialist Democrats to win. Get real. President Trump has proven in so many ways it’s not business as usual from the Oval Office. The country can’t risk putting a RAT into the White House at this moment.


14 posted on 08/21/2019 7:57:03 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: precisionshootist

After some thought on this, I think his intentions are good WHEN he gets the full and correct information. I think because he is such a busy man as President, he is trusting heavily on his advisors to keep him very well updated to sentiments of the people. But the advisors are filtering information and giving their own opinions instead of sharing the true sentiments of the people.

So I don’t think he is always fully updated on how truly serious certain topics are to folks. I think he may be putting too much trust in opinionated incompetent monitoring of public sentiment because he doesn’t have time to do it himself. So far the public has had to holler pretty damn loud to get his attention and make him rethink his positions, it is not getting correctly relayed to him as it should be.


15 posted on 08/21/2019 8:03:44 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Russ
“That’s right, throw the whole government over to the far left and make sure the 2nd Amemendment is totally destroyed. That’ll show them. Liberal Supreme Court and lower courts, reestablish all the regulations Trump eliminated and pull down the wall and open the borders. All for the sake of bump stocks that 9 out of 10 gun owners couldn’t even tell you what they are. BRILLIANT!!”

Sorry, but you will need to convince the half a million bumpstock owners of your wisdom as I’m not one of them but rest assured they are out there all five hundred thousand of them all of whom certainly voted for and helped give us President Trump in the first place.

16 posted on 08/21/2019 8:05:59 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: drypowder

Absolutely... Because we trusted far too much in those who promised to protect it and did not holler loud enough when we should have to get their attention and make sure they rethink the situation before even going there.


17 posted on 08/21/2019 8:08:50 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind
“After some thought on this, I think his intentions are good WHEN he gets the full and correct information. I think because he is such a busy man as President, he is trusting heavily on his advisors to keep him very well updated to sentiments of the people. But the advisors are filtering information and giving their own opinions instead of sharing the true sentiments of the people. So I don’t think he is always fully updated on how truly serious certain topics are to folks. I think he may be putting too much trust in opinionated incompetent monitoring of public sentiment because he doesn’t have time to do it himself. So far the public has had to holler pretty damn loud to get his attention and make him rethink his positions, it is not getting correctly relayed to him as it should be.”

I agree 100% which is why we must do the hollering so the President gets the message.

18 posted on 08/21/2019 8:21:12 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

I agree, While I trust his intentions and commitment to the people, it is just as important to make sure he also strongly gets the message from public sources outside the circle of advisors. While we might trust Trump we CANNOT trust the middlemen he is getting his information from to formulate his decisions.


19 posted on 08/21/2019 8:37:49 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Absolutely! It’s the people around the President giving him swamp biased information that are the problem. This is the reason I believe the number of bumpstock owners was lowballed. This was to make the President believe there was little risk in pushing for the ban. This was a huge mistake as he can scratch a half a million votes that he got in 2016. Owners of bumpstocks had either to turn over property to the government with no compensation or they are now in possession of an unregistered machine gun. ( A very serious and aggressively prosecuted felony) They will not be voting for President Trump and as I stated the actual number is likely more than a half a million.


20 posted on 08/21/2019 8:50:00 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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