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Congressman suggests Second Amendment as means of opposing Trump
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Posted on 03/19/2018 5:08:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A Democratic congressman from Long Island implied that Americans should grab weapons and oppose President Trump by force, if the commander-in-chief doesn’t follow the Constitution.

Rep. Tom Suozzi made the remark to constituents at a town hall last week, saying that folks opposed to Trump might resort to the “Second Amendment.”

“It’s really a matter of putting public pressure on the president,” Suozzi said in a newly released video of the March 12 talk in Huntington. “This is where the Second Amendment comes in quite frankly, because you know, what if the president was to ignore the courts? What would you do? What would we do?”

A listener then blurts out, “What’s the second amendment?”

The left-leaning Democrat says “The second amendment is the right to bear arms.”

The spectators laughed — some nervously. Republicans were not amused.

“This video is incredibly disturbing. It’s surreal to watch a sitting member of Congress suggest that his constituents should take up arms against the President of the United States,” said National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman Chris Martin.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; 2ndamendment; banglist; congressman; election2018; election2020; nra; secondamendment; tomsuozzi; trump
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Who is he going to call on, the Snowflake Army?


41 posted on 03/19/2018 5:43:58 AM PDT by Bookshelf (AND)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

RATS have no right to bear arms. Lesbo LaRaza Cue-ball said in Florida that guns have no use. must be destroyed. Follow the way of the Cue-ball.


42 posted on 03/19/2018 5:50:54 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
what if the president was to ignore the courts?

Yes - I recall quite clearly all the conservatives brandishing arms in front of the White House when Obama was in there doing his thing.

Hell - maybe we should have been - then this would all be unnecessary...

43 posted on 03/19/2018 5:54:35 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: C210N

bttt


44 posted on 03/19/2018 6:04:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The media has the masses jacked up and freaked out. Many folks believe Trump is an evil dictator. He has done nothing wrong! He has done nothing unconstitutional! He’s a damn good president. Maybe the best so far. I lay all this at the feet of the media. Maybe they are the ones that need to be dealt with first


45 posted on 03/19/2018 6:04:21 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Left has already taken up arms. Don’t believe me? Ask Steve Scalise.

L


46 posted on 03/19/2018 6:06:15 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You may not have to be Bat-Crap crazy to be a democrats but no one has tried it yet.


47 posted on 03/19/2018 6:06:45 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If that’s the way they want to go...


48 posted on 03/19/2018 6:20:05 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: C210N
Actually, the 2nd Amendment dictates that the government lacks the power to infringe upon the god-given right to bear arms.

In the relationship between the People of our Constitutional Republic and our government, the People have rights, while the government has powers (but only those powers granted by the People).

49 posted on 03/19/2018 6:25:09 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A Democratic congressman from Long Island implied that Americans should grab weapons and oppose President Trump by force, if the commander-in-chief doesn’t follow the Constitution.

Cue the Benny Hill music.

50 posted on 03/19/2018 6:27:14 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Peaceful? One has to stay north of 25A to keep away from the threat of MS13

I call that blissful

By the way, Huntington is Suffolk county. It’s Red. It’s Trump country


51 posted on 03/19/2018 6:34:02 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Gay State Conservative
I agree - with the caveat that the People are obligated to exhaust all legal means to force the president to follow the Constitution before they resort to taking up arms. At its core, it is the same philosophy espoused in the Declaration of Independence.

However, I doubt Mr. Suozzi would have agreed with anyone who made the same statement 7 years ago using the name Obama instead of the name Trump.

52 posted on 03/19/2018 6:37:31 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cornered RATS do DESPERATE things.


53 posted on 03/19/2018 6:37:41 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Americans with guns need to start stock piling ammo. Why, because of anti USA Democrats, Obama, and now Trump. Seems our government forgot, a government by the people, for the people. Now they want to be a Turkish style government, totalitarian. Imprison the opposition.


54 posted on 03/19/2018 6:39:19 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That congressman is saying that communist citizens should attack the Republic.

Too bad their army (left leaning millennial snowflake pansies) don’t even own a gun or know how to use one.

It’s ironic that congressman believes in taking your guns.

It’s time to eradicate the communists.


55 posted on 03/19/2018 6:42:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Can you imagine what would’ve happened had a Republican said this during the Obama regime?


56 posted on 03/19/2018 6:47:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: bk1000

“The media has the masses jacked up and freaked out. Many folks believe Trump is an evil dictator. He has done nothing wrong! He has done nothing unconstitutional! He’s a damn good president. Maybe the best so far. I lay all this at the feet of the media. Maybe they are the ones that need to be dealt with first” Needs repeating.....


57 posted on 03/19/2018 6:49:55 AM PDT by Optimom
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To: A_Former_Democrat

The closer we get to the Truth.. the more unhinged the Marxists become.. It is going to get so much worse for them.. They are going to lose it.. They are Dangerous.. Continue to pray for President Trump’s protection.


58 posted on 03/19/2018 6:50:25 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: bk1000

This is why they are called Useful Idiots.


59 posted on 03/19/2018 6:57:16 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This son of a bitch Suozzi should be arrested by the Secret Service for threatening the president.

As an American of Italian ancestry who grew up on Long Island, I’m embarrassed by this piece of garbage called Suozzi.


60 posted on 03/19/2018 7:01:02 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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