Posted on 02/18/2019 3:55:36 PM PST by SkyPilot
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) on Friday suggested a future Democratic president could confiscate citizens' guns based on the precedent of President Donald Trump's national emergency announcement regarding the border wall.
Nadler, the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time" to discuss Trump's announcement earlier in the morning. Trump declared it "necessary" to build the wall on the southern border.
Host Chris Cuomo asked Nadler if enough Republicans would come out against Trump, prompting him to say, "I think so" and that he believes Republicans are terrified of unintended consequences. He speculated about other hypothetical national emergencies if a Democrat were to win in 2020.
"If the president can declare an emergency today on this nonsense, on this, the Democratic president can decide that, as you mentioned, the 40,000 people a year killed in this country is a crisis. And why don't we take everybody's guns away? Or force everybody to register their guns, or ban all assault rifles, or do all of that without congressional approval?" Nadler said. "This opens up tyranny or dictatorship."
"Now it may be something that the Republicans don't particularly oppose, but tomorrow, with a Democratic president, it could be something they hate," Nadler continued.
Nadler isn't the only Democrat bringing up national emergency hypotheticals that a Democratic president could push in the future.
"Our next President should declare a #NationalEmergency on day 1 to address the existential threat to all life on the planet posed by Climate Change," tweeted freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.).
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This is the beauty of Trump’s presidency. He has forced Democrats to reveal their true colors, and go all in for totalitarianism rather than their usual conning of voters every election cycle which pushes the Overton window.
This should help them win the next election.
Hey ya fat *hit...meet me in the Meadowlands.
Hillary all but said she was going to do the same once she took power - so nothing new here.
Hey Nadler, Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment. “Shall not be infringed”.
Ring a bell, Fatboy?
Thanks for the campaign ad, congressman.
You'll be the one knocking on the door, right Jerry?
Even if there's no knock, you'll be at the head of the line, right?
The greatest part of the Trump presidency is that he’s forcing the lefties to admit out in the open what they really want for this country. If that fat tub of donut batter thinks gun confiscation is going to happen he and the RATS have another thing coming!
These retards really think we’re dumb enough to back off calling for the wall to be built in this fashion due to their warnings that such a declaration could be used to “grab guns”?
Actually, they are stupid enough to believe so, it seems.
Try it and see what happens.
Fill the fat boys a## with lead
If they do try it, we need to be unified. They will try to make an example so that we will all comply.
An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.
Hmmmmm. Sorry there chunkee. Both items are covered by the constitution. Protecting the country and the 2nd amendment. “Moron labe” in your case.
Protecting the states from invasion is a Constitutional duty of the government.
The Second Amendment says they can’t take the citizens guns.
Someone needs to explain the Constitution to this idiot.
See. This is the goal of the Dems - gun confiscation.
AND it exposees the cowardice of the GOPe left wing since it proves how easy it is to fight the crazy Dems.
Near as I can tell, the scope of Trump’s emergency is the movement of some $5 to $15 billion of already appropriated funds by re-purposing the usage. The Dems are trying to scare others by saying that they’ll use the pen and phone to annul the 2nd amendment or institute the whole GND. Try that with just the authority of a rounding error in the budget!
Not that they wouldn’t be happy to have a leftwing dictator... but this border emergency isn’t in anyway a plausible precedent for that.
So where do you plan on hiding Jerry?You will be hunted by hundreds of snipers.
Why are there so many idiot liars in the RAT party?
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Because lies and deception are the only way they survive and they know it.
If we had a decent Media, the Rats would be out of business in short order.
This threat from Nancy and this Fatboy is a great way to lose even bigger in 2020. Trump has them all crazy.
He'll send a large number of well equipped, uniformed government agents to do it. And he'll simultaneously inform all the Big Media that you're suspected of plotting terrorist attacks against blacks, gays, and women.
Plan accordingly.
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