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Schumer Asks Trump to 'Break from the NRA...And Work With Us'
cnsnews.com ^ | 10/4/2017 | Susan Jones

Posted on 10/05/2017 10:21:47 AM PDT by rktman

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told a news conference on Tuesday he's sent a letter to President Trump, asking for a meeting to discuss gun control.

"I have requested of the President to call us together, Democrats and Republicans, to come up with a reasonable solution. Before he was a candidate and marched in lockstep to the NRA, Donald Trump expressed a very reasonable position on gun control," Schumer said.

Schumer described the National Rifle Association, a group that supports Americans' constitutional right to keep and bear arms, as a swamp:

"Look, this is, I mean, this is the swamp. A small, powerful lobby that represents a vast minority, a very small minority of Americans, seems to have a stranglehold on the Republican Party. And, that shouldn't be.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2a; banglist; bor; guncontrol; third100days; trumpbanglist
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To: rktman

That would guarantee T as a 1-term president.


61 posted on 10/05/2017 12:31:42 PM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: butlerweave
😵. Looks like the nra is moving to work with chuck and his buddies on bump stocks already.
62 posted on 10/05/2017 12:33:51 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Has any Senator asked Senator Schumer to “break with Hitler’s deliberate policy of disarming citizens” and instead endorse the RIGHT of all Americans to Self-Defense?


63 posted on 10/05/2017 12:47:06 PM PDT by pfony1
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To: rktman

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/chuck-schumer-amy-schumer-gun-control-120934


64 posted on 10/05/2017 1:14:51 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: FlipWilson

***Charles Schumer is a shameless, arrogant, moron.***

Remember, years ago, the photo of him smiling while blasting away with a Tec-9? He was having more fun than “peasants” should be allowed to have!


65 posted on 10/05/2017 2:25:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: NorthMountain
Yes, seriously. I was on a joint-Service group, and one of the Army guys showed me a copy.
66 posted on 10/06/2017 7:02:31 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney
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