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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 05:56 AM Sep 2015

Donald Trump’s 2nd amendment insanity

Does the billionaire’s gun-rights platform out-crazy his immigration plan?

While watching Donald Trump’s recent televised whatever-that-was in Dallas, during which the GOP frontrunner rambled on from one self-congratulatory superlative to the next, I wondered how long it’d be before he upped the ante and appeared on stage carrying an assault rifle.

After all, Trump’s months-long crusade to vilify Mexicans is beginning to wear thin, and as of last week, while he remains the clear frontrunner, candidates Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have started to make inroads in the polls. It only makes sense that Trump would segue onto another topic that’d inspire googly-eyed rage from the his fanboys. And what better topic than firearms and gun rights? Not only would he loop in the libertarian and “liberty movement” crackpots, but the Second Amendment always tends to bring out racists. The core of Trump’s support has been built around bigoted nationalists, so why not?

Thus, it comes as no surprise that Trump finally added his second position page to his official campaign website last week. Now, in addition to “Immigration,” we can learn about Trump’s views on “Second Amendment Rights.” Finally. Because I’m sure he’s been hunkered down with his policy advisers discussing truly groundbreaking approaches to both resolving gun violence while somehow preserving the notion that the Second Amendment is an absolute right to own as many guns of all varieties as we want.

In truth, there’s nothing particularly innovative on Trump’s Second Amendment page, even in the context of a subculture that speaks in fragmented NRA bumper-sticker zingers. Right off the bat, his position is absolute: “The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.”

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/donald_trumps_2nd_amendment_insanity_does_the_billionaires_gun_rights_platform_out_crazy_his_immigration_plan/
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Donald Trump’s 2nd amendment insanity (Original Post) SecularMotion Sep 2015 OP
Maybe you could take this... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2015 #1
Yep Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #2
I much prefer Bernie's views on guns hack89 Sep 2015 #3
Oh! I get it. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2015 #4
Controllers are picky about the GOPers they like. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #5
What's not to like about a GOPer that keeps a retinue of armed mercenaries Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2015 #6
Well we will not here anything from the OP Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #7

hack89

(39,179 posts)
3. I much prefer Bernie's views on guns
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 08:45 AM
Sep 2015

but to be honest, any Democratic president will be good for gun owners. They will talk a good controller game but do nothing radical.

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)
4. Oh! I get it.
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:08 AM
Sep 2015

If you support the 2A you must be aligned with Trump and as all right-thinking people agree that Trump supporters should be banned from DU. After all, we wouldn't want DU to associate with racist Republican billionaires and their gun toting lackeys --





-- would we?

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)
6. What's not to like about a GOPer that keeps a retinue of armed mercenaries
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 02:59 PM
Sep 2015

while demanding work-a-day Democrats be disarmed?

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