Nadler (D) Suggests a Dem President Can Seize Guns After Trump’s National Emergency Precedent

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | Feb 16, 2018 | Cameron Cawthorne

[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.).

[Fedora]

Nadler, you can seize some bullets if you want, too.

[YummiBox]

They Dems should definitely run on gun confiscation in 2020. Fantastic idea. I hope they keep talking about this...

[98charlie]

I dont understand how the Democrats think that they can control guns across the country if they can not even control guns in a single city. Most of the gun violence in this country could be solved if they just found a way to control illegal guns in D.C. and Chicago.

[windsorknot]

Nad’s response underscores the very reason there is a Second Amendment to our Constitution.

[Gay State Conservative]

You'd better bring a battalion to my hose Fat Boy!

[Bonemaker]

“Nadler (D) Suggests a Dem President Can Seize Guns After Trump’s National Emergency Precedent”

Got your last will and testament and bug out bag ready Jerome?

[joma89]

I really hope a democrat President does declare a national emergency and sends the fbi to collect up all the guns. I look forward to seeing the response by the people.

JoMa

[doorgunner69]

I dont understand how the Democrats think that they can control guns across the country if they can not even control guns in a single city.

They fantasize the military will be used to wipe us out. Read one fanatical old bull dyke posting just that on my local liberal rag comment page.

Same one that constantly posts that NRA members are all terrorists. Killing us is exactly what she wants.

[Bonemaker]

“He will send the FBI, or Cops..,”

SWAT teams to take out women, dogs and kids first.

[Bonemaker]

“Gun bans are Constitutionally prohibited.”

Lot of good, that abstraction is doing the people of NY, NJ, CT, MA, CA etc.

[depressed in 06]

Nadler proclaims there never will be another Bolshekrat Pres__ent.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Someone needs to take that to the USSC.

[Bonemaker]

“State Red Flag Laws say that the police can take away from one suspicious claim from anyone.”

That’s why democrats are so for them.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Scare tactics.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Not with that commie rat bastard and his ilk.

[Bonemaker]

"Try it and see what happens."

[SaxxonWoods]

No, he can't as the issues are completely different. It is idiotic to claim it.

The laws of our land have the final say.

Trump's act will be found legal under the applicable law re executive action powers.

Canceling the 2nd Amendment will not be found to be an executive action power.

[Bonemaker]

Noodler, Cordoza, and Schmucker... nice bunch of voters you got there Filth York.

[KC Burke]

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[TN4Liberty]

In this argument about border security, Nadler cites the very reason liberals should never be given power. GOP should keep this threat and run it on a loop in 2020.