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Initech

(99,915 posts)
Fri May 18, 2018, 01:39 PM May 2018

Need A Reminder Of Trump Stroking The Fears Of The Gun Nuts Last Week?

DALLAS — President Trump made a passionate appeal to the National Rifle Association on Friday to help him in the midterm elections, renewing his longstanding bond with the controversial gun-rights group just months after criticizing members of Congress for being overly deferential to the gun lobby.

After a season of tumult in the national debate over gun violence, Mr. Trump left little doubt about his political allegiance at the N.R.A.’s annual convention in Texas. The president, who briefly mulled a package of incremental gun-control measures after a February high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., cast himself as a lock step ally for the organization and implored its members to vote in November.

“Your Second Amendment rights are under siege,” Mr. Trump said. “But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I am your president.”

Mr. Trump’s visit to the convention, alongside Vice President Mike Pence, amounted to an unreserved show of support for the N.R.A., and a further signal that Democrats and Republicans are likely to campaign on diametrically opposed gun-policy platforms this year. Most Democrats have endorsed an assortment of new gun regulations and many have attacked the N.R.A. by name.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/trump-pence-national-rifle-association.html


Yes - he literally stroked the fear and paranoia of the gun nuts last week by saying this very fucking thing! And today he's going to do everything he can to stop school shootings! Which is what? Metal detectors? Clear backpacks? Have a TSA at every school? Make the Oath Keepers hall monitors? Fuck I am getting sick of this crap!!

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