Posted on 05/04/2018 6:42:33 PM PDT by davikkm
While speaking to the NRA convention on May 4, President Trump made clear that trusting the people with guns is part of trusting them with freedom. Trump commented on freedom and his enduring trust in American citizens in the portion of the speech in which he addressed arming teachers to protect students.
He literally advocated for armed teachers, saying, “We support the Second Amendment, not only because we believe in freedom, but also because we trust in everyday, talented, wonderful people … And by the way, these teachers, they love their students. And they are not going to let anybody hurt their students. But you have to give them a chance.”
Trump then transitioned to make the basic point that being armed is part of being free and is characteristically American, saying: “In America we trust the people to be wise and to be good. We trust them to take responsibility for themselves, their families, and their communities. And that is why in America we have always trusted the people to bear arms.”
Breitbart News reported that Trump used an early portion of his speech to stress that our right to keep and bear arm originates in God, not government. He said, “Your second amendment rights … will never, ever be under siege as long as I am president. … We believe that our liberty is a gift from our Creator, that no government can ever take it away.”
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This President is truly a president of the people, by the people and for the people.
trusting the people with guns is part of trusting them with freedom.
A true death of fresh air after the Muslim.
Autocorrect got to you, huh?
Breath
Yeah. What a pisser/hisser/Pilsner. Eeh yeah.
Then STOP trying to ban bump stocks and other gun parts, Mr. President.
And it removed the “e” after the “m”.
It’s not about ‘trusting’ the People with anything.
It’s about this:
The People formed the gov’t to defend individual rights
If the gov’t won’t, the People will.
Defense of one’s self and of individual liberty is a Natural Right.
I thought that that was one of his hot buttons?
“Trusting The People with Guns Is Part of Trusting Them with Freedom”
This should go in the record books of one of the greatest quotes from a President.
This is my President.
Yeah, I’m waiting as well. If ever there was a clearer need for an EO that would be it.
“The Constitution is federal. States have no individual say in it’s enumerated rights. Thank you and have a good day”
Sorry though, that comment is bass ackwards. We the people entrust our liberty to a government of for and by the people.
I really don’t give a rat’s buttocks if the govt trusts me. It is “I, we, us” who entrust arms to them for our mutual defense and protection. I like Pres. Trump, but he needs another lesson on what my natural essential and fundamental inalienable rights are, and where they come from.
“This President is truly a president of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Well, except for that pesky little illegal bump stock ban from which the libs will base future restrictions.
Trump is making a fairly profound point here. Amazing what he understands by instinct.
Any slub can build a bump stock. I want reciprisiopity and the hearing conservation act. Only thing banning the stocks does is drive them off channel. Dumb feel good crap.
Whatever. Trump is making a good point here.
Yes, that is one of Trump’s best, maybe THE best, quotes.
I agree with him, kinda. Freedom isn’t something I am “entrusted with”. It is my God given right. It is the natural condition of man.
Nobody and I mean NOBODY grants it to me, or can take it away.
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