On Wednesday, President Trump met with Congressional Democrats and Republicans to discuss measures to bolster student security in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida massacre. There, Trump proceeded to make an anti-Second Amendment statement so radical that it put President Obama’s gun control sermons in the shade.
“I don’t want mentally ill people to be having guns,” Trump said. He continued:
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The Constitution guarantees due process. Trump can’t waive it, and to suggest that we simply ignore due process in order to seize guns is both fascistic and idiotic. If Obama had done the same, Republicans would have started drawing up articles of impeachment. Nearly as stupid is Trump handing Democrats a propaganda victory by tearing into fellow Republicans as tools of the NRA. The NRA never should have allowed itself to become a Trump-centric organization — and this shows just why. Trump cannot be trusted to have their backs, since he’s too busy patting his own.
BETRAYAL: Trump Says Government Should 'Take The Guns First, Go Through Due Process Second'
Nice Fascistic Thinking
“I don’t want mentally ill people to be having guns,” Trump said. He continued:
You have to do something very decisive. Number one, you can take the guns away immediately from people that you can adjudge easily are mentally ill, like this guy. You know, the police saw that he was a problem, they didn’t take any guns away. Now, that could have been policing. I think they should have taken them away anyway, whether they had the right or not. But I’ll tell you this, you have to have very strong provisions for the mentally ill.
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Or, Mike, take the firearms first, and then go to court. .... So you could do exactly what you’re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.
The Constitution guarantees due process. Trump can’t waive it, and to suggest that we simply ignore due process in order to seize guns is both fascistic and idiotic. If Obama had done the same, Republicans would have started drawing up articles of impeachment. Nearly as stupid is Trump handing Democrats a propaganda victory by tearing into fellow Republicans as tools of the NRA. The NRA never should have allowed itself to become a Trump-centric organization — and this shows just why. Trump cannot be trusted to have their backs, since he’s too busy patting his own.
BETRAYAL: Trump Says Government Should 'Take The Guns First, Go Through Due Process Second'
Nice Fascistic Thinking
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