Posted on 03/27/2023 5:43:45 PM PDT by Drew68
In his book The America We Deserve, published in 2000:
“I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun.”
Why does anyone “need” an AR-15?
The 2nd Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights.
It is not part of the Bill of Needs!
I don’t want to find out why I need an AR-15. Rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
“assault weapons” is a liberal made-up term.
“according to people present for the statements”
This is little more than a political hit job.
Completely unsourced.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Suspiciously being reported now.
Thumbs up. They’ve been trying to separate Trump’s voters from Trump for over seven years. It will take a heck of a lot more than a fake WAPO story to do it.
Whatever
His first reaction was rebuffed and became an informed decision
They need an AR-15 for the same reason they need a Stormy.
JUst one more . . .
Should we ban cars and doctors as they kill many more times the people that guns do.
Forget the WP. This has been corroborated. Emily said so!
Exactly. They’d be calling him a RINO and comparing him to Mittens. We’re Trump to be elected to President again (he won’t), he’d eventually ban a lot of guns. New York gonna New York.
Emily Miller She also worked as deputy press secretary for Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and as communications director for House Majority Whip Tom DeLay. In August 2020, Miller, who had no previous science or medical experience, was appointed as Assistant Commissioner for Media Affairs for the Food and Drug Administration, including being their top spokesperson, a role usually performed by non-political civil servants.[13] Two weeks later, she was dismissed from the position abruptly, reportedly due to repeated clashes with the Agency's staff and a lack of aptitude for communicating in the medical and scientific field. "“I don’t know why anyone needs an AR-15,” Trump told aides as he flew on Marine One to the White House in August 2019, -->> according to a person who heard his comments.<<-- -->> While this reporting from The Post is from anonymous sources,<<-- it lines up with Trump’s public comment in 2018 in a bipartisan White House meeting on gun control measures after the horrific school mass shooting in Parkland, FL.
PASS - name names or it is rumor
you’re full of sh*t
and a way better option.
I wish I had your writing skills. You put together a very cogent view of the problems that America First faces: the swamp—the Uniparty and their allies in media—have ways of deceiving, manipulating and confusing the voting public, including those on our side who should know better; and rather than swallow the pablum, we should spit it back in their faces.
Nice work researching.
Those who know Trump know Trump is no Second Amendment bogeyman.
Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, did not respond to detailed findings in this article but said that “there had been no bigger defender of the Second Amendment than President Trump.” He said that Trump had offered other proposals after mass shootings, such as adding security guards to schools and allowing teachers who are licensed to carry a weapon to do so.
Here's a more objective and reputable assessment and source:
I am not disputing what you say. I am merely pointing out that the Brits did not employ anything like our rifled long guns (i.e., the Kentucky Long Rifle; the Pennsylvania Rifle; they are the same gun). We also employed hit-and-run tactics far more than the Brits did (and in such actions the more precise rifled barrel proved its worth) in addition to the more common massed rank formations.
Here is a history of the rifle. Very interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_rifle
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