Posted on 11/18/2016 5:38:07 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
I am not what you could reasonably call a Trump fan, and there are a number of things that worry me about him, but if he follows through on this he has my ungrudging support. IMHO it should have been the FIRST Amendment, it is so important.
Contrarily, Hillary’s stand on the same subject is exactly why I not only couldn’t vote for her, but had to vote for the person who made the strongest argument for the 2nd Amendment. There were other people running that I would have preferred to vote for, but Trump had the clearest and best statement on this most important subject to me.
Democrats will rue the day they used Fedgov to FORCE the states to accept gay marriage. Now the die is cast, and the same technique can be used for any number of issues, like gun rights and sanctuary cities, to name a couple recent examples. Pass the popcorn.
Tired of winning already? Why so pessimistic - when has Trump given you reason to doubt his intentions?
The second amendment doesn’t “guarantee” anything. It merely recognizes we are born with the natural right to defend ourselves by any means necessary.
So dis-arming vets and federalizing muni and state police is dead?
” merely “ ????
Strongly disagree with that word in this context....
This is the fun thing with conservatives. We get a President who promises 80% of what you want, and all you can do is criticize him for the 20% you won’t get.
What do you think we would have gotten with Hillary Clinton. You should be ashamed of yourself. Life doesn’t cater to us personally. We have to take whatever we can get. If we can get 80% of what we want instead of more guns banned and more freedoms lost just say “thank you”.
That is your only takeaway from Trumps position in the Second Amendment? That he used the colloquial term “gurantee” to call a right.
Well listen up, uh... friend.
The very night written items was, “The Constitution doesn’t create that right – it ensures that the government can’t take it away.”
So in a matter of speaking, he already covered your severe nit-picking by recognizing that the right is merely identified in the Constitution, not created by it.
You probably didn’t even bother to read anything past that one sentence with the word “guarantee”.
Thanks for nothing.
I like the defense he’s playing, and the bit of offense. I’d like to see a broad offense as well, removing supressors from the NFA act. :)
President Trump’s ATF Director will be revealing.
Agree. There is no Tenth Amendment violation here. States are forbidden by the Constitution from violating the RKBA.
Sort of in the same vein as people saying the second amendment gives us the right to bear arms.
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