Posted on 04/26/2019 10:01:31 AM PDT by Syncro
Great speech going on NOW
AWESOME AWESOME PASSIONATE SPEECH!
That speech was powerful and heartfelt!
Jerks!
I’m guessing Kunta Kinte had something to do with it.
I don’t think they were throwing it at POTUS.
Just up in air.
Stupid move, regardless.
Did he mention Maria Butina?
Let me know when he reverses his opinion on red flag laws...
That’s exactly what all of the lefties, on Twitter, are asking.
What would you like for him to answer, if he were asked about her?
*** What would you like for him to answer, if he were asked about her? ***
Pardon, or Commutation, followed by deportation
Not that I’ve heard. I am playing the tape of the event.
*** Let me know when he reverses his opinion on red flag laws... ***
Trump: “Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
Trump: “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida…Take the guns first.”
https://nationalgunrights.org/resources/news/white-house-endorses-red-flag-gun-confiscation/
If I were in Congress, I’d support impeaching Trump for allowing (not to mention encouraging) the bump stock ban. That Trump administration regulation is an abrogation of his oath to support and defend the Constitution. I thank God every day that Hillary did not win the 2016 election, and that Republican voters rejected folks like Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, and the others who Trump opposed in the primaries. But if we want to pass on the Blessings of Liberty to generations yet to come, we must do better, much better, than Trump has done.
The Washington Times has a story on p. A4 today titled “Despite bump stock ban, gun rights advocates strongly support Trump; NRA meeting attendees say president checking off right boxes”:
INDIANAPOLIS | Some gun rights advocates are revolting against the Trump administration’s bump stock ban, but attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual meetings say they give President Trump a pass and are still behind him.
[photo caption] A man looks at cases of firearms in the halls of the Indianapolis Convention Center on Thursday where members of the National Rifle Association will be holding its 148th annual meetings in Indianapolis. The group’s meetings come at a tumultuous time within the gun-rights organization.
[photo credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS]
“You know what? I didn’t even know what a bump stock was,” said Patrick Callahan, 61, from Wyoming. “I have no problem with a bump stock being banned, to be honest with you. I think there’s always balances.”
Mr. Callahan said he’s been happy with Mr. Trump overall and that he’ll be voting for him in 2020, saying his willingness to mix things up with the press and his political opponents is a welcome contrast to other recent GOP nominees.
“Trump is the type of fighter you need,” he said. “You’re in a knife fight at 3 a.m. in a back alley and you need to be able to fight back, and bring a bigger knife or a gun … it’s rough and tumble, and the Democrats play that way.”
On Friday, Mr. Trump will speak to the NRA for the third straight year as president, and his appearance will be the highlight for many attendees.
They say he’s still checking all the right boxes for them, defending their Second Amendment rights and battling the Democrat-led states who are pushing for more restrictions.
Even the bump stock ban, which irked some leaders within the gun-rights movement, doesn’t bother NRA rank-and-file members.
“That’s fine. We don’t need them,” said Daryl Belik, 72, a retired farmer from North Dakota who praised the president’s approach. “He’s doing what he feels right in his mind, and that’s what I think most of us want.”
The administration announced in December that it was banning the devices, which attach to semiautomatic rifles to mimic the rate of machine-gun fire, under the law that already bans almost all ownership of machine guns.
Gun rights advocates, including groups like Gun Owners of America and the Firearms Policy Foundation, promptly sued. They said the administration was improperly reversing past rulings by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that the devices themselves aren’t weapons and thus outside what the government is allowed to regulate.
The federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have turned aside the challenges thus far.
The Justice Department said it took a fresh look at the issue after the October 2017 Las Vegas shooting, in which the gunman used bump stocks to rain fire down on concertgoers, killing 58 people, and concluded that the devices should be defined as machine guns.
Brett Meeker, 61, from Pennsylvania, said he’s less concerned about bump stocks than he is the rhetorical or legislative assault on gun rights.
He said he was at first wary of Mr. Trump, saying he figured him to be a “New York liberal playboy.”
But the party establishment’s antipathy to Mr. Trump proved endearing to Mr. Meeker.
“I mean, when all the former Republican presidents are against him — to me, maybe that’s a good idea,” he said, adding that Mr. Trump has generally followed through on his campaign pledges.
“I figured it’s just another guy telling you what you want to hear, but he’s been pretty true to it and for that, I’ve been very pleased,” he said. “I wasn’t sure what to expect.”
The massive exhibit hall at the Indiana Convention Center will also officially open Friday for convention attendees, who were greeted Thursday by signs touting “miles of aisles” of guns and gear to peruse, firearms already on display for raffle, and giant images of NRA figures like Oliver North, the group’s president.
Mr. Belik said attendees need to show Democrats and gun control advocates who are talking about banning guns like the AR-15 that they’re not about to cede that debate.
“They’ll go after everything. That’s what we’re here for,” he said.
Why would Trump pardon her??
And, she’ll be deported after she finishes her sentence.
The DOJ made this statement...
it’s weird that the youtube fetishists that hate foxnews because it’s a liberal organization conveniently ignore the fact that youtube is owned and manipulated by google, the granddaddy of all heinous liberal orgs.
“I cut the cable!! I’m independent!! I get all my news from a brainless, manipulated video feed provided by george soros!!”
Me too
Look up “United Nations’ International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)” and its head Rebecca Peters.
Thoroughly Soros-funded and aimed mostly at disarming U.S. citizens. Nothing about ChiCom and Russian mega weapons industries spreading guns to all the world’s trouble spots; just “American arms manufacturers driven by profits”.
The rest of the world hates the Second Amendment, too.
> Someone threw a cell phone at him
A Life Member “Nobody needs a bump stock” FUDD?
Cellphone thrown up on to the stage of that Trump speech. The person should be questioned that is for sure. It could be a test.
How stupid is that?
Should be easy to track phone to owner.
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