I know that President Trump is crafty and says outrageous things simply to get a rise out of democrats and to shift the narrative to what he wants it to be. He however said something today that I have a hard time defending. In a nut shell, he came out in favor of seizing guns from Americans without due process. I expect that from Obama, but not Trump.
President Trump held a bipartisan meeting on gun control with members of Congress today. He was talking about Nikolas Cruz, the Florida school shooter, who had many run-ins with the law but was never deprived of his right to own guns.
President Trump tells Senators he thinks police should have taken guns away from Nikolas Cruz, whether they had the right or not, “I don’t want mentally ill people to be having guns.” pic.twitter.com/wU6L8ERlas
— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) February 28, 2018
“The police saw that he was a problem, they didn’t take any guns away. Now, that could’ve been policing. They should’ve taken them away anyway, whether they had the right or not,” said Trump.
Yikes! Taken his guns whether they had a right or not? That ain’t how it works as long as the Constitution still exists. The fact is the local police had many opportunities to legally relive Cruz of his firearms but chose not to. That being said, Trump shouldn’t be saying that police should be illegally confiscating weapons from people.
WATCH: President Trump: “I like taking the guns early … Take the guns first, go through due process second.” pic.twitter.com/aydEZdAGq0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 28, 2018
And it gets worse. Vice President Mike Pence was talking about getting legislation that would make it easier for law enforcement to take guns away from mentally ill people, but within the law and respecting due process. Pence said he didn’t want to “trample on anyone’s rights” and they should go to court first and then take the firearms.
This is how Trump responded:
“Or Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court,” said Trump.
Then he added:
“I like taking the guns early,” said Trump. “Take the gun first and go through due process second.”
I understand that Trump is speaking in the context of the Florida school shooter, but these are words anyone who gives a shit about liberty never wants to hear the President say. Gun ownership is a right which should never be taken away with out another right: due process. These are fundamental rights that we all have and when the government starts taking those things away, that’s tyranny.
The funny thing is, liberals who hate Trump and think he’s a fascist dictator, love these fascist dictorshipy things he just said. They think he should be impeached for all kinds of nonsense but will praise him for the impeachable offense of stripping Americans of their God-given natural rights.
Like I said, Trump tends to say things as a way of manipulating the left, so hopefully this is more of him exerting control over the democrats. If he actually wants to do something that will take guns away from people without due process, he’s pretty much Obama to me and I will no longer be able to support him.
via Downtrend.com
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