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Donald Trump is now the Leading Second Amendment Supporter
Gun Watch ^ | 19 November, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 11/22/2015 5:09:19 AM PST by marktwain



In an exclusive to Brietbart.com, Donald Trump has called for Americans to bear arms to increase security in the United States.  From Brietbart.com:
Carrying a weapon is not always feasible or appropriate. However, given the increased tensions that are the result of continued, escalating terrorism around the world, more legitimately armed individuals on the streets is a positive outcome. Each permit holder must make the decision to carry or not carry. I will carry more often than I have in the past, and I am sure other concealed permit holders will do the same. Do we have an obligation to carry? The answer is “yes,” but we must do it in such a way as to raise serious doubts in the minds of those who might be considering violence in America. Deterring violence is far better than dealing with the aftermath of an act of terror. Less blood, more security. That is what will make America great again.
Donald Trump shows that he understands reality better than most of the politicians in the nation.  This continues his breakthrough strategy of ignoring the censorship imposed by the media cartel in the name of "political correctness".    The concept of the citizenry being armed to defend against threats is as old and as obvious as mankind.  Only in the last hundred years, with the rise of "progressivism", has the weird idea that people are safer when disarmed been marketed to the public as a sane concept.

In Europe, people carried arms all over the continent before WWI.  In the British Empire, British Citizens had the right to keep and carry arms.  It was only after WWI that elites all around the world marketed the idea that the public would be "safer" if they were disarmed.

The elites feared an overthrow of their elite order, and believed that the elites would be safer if the public were disarmed.  That is how British elites imposed "gun control" by deception.  What the empire had imposed on its subjects, they now imposed on its citizens.

The idea of disarming citizens in the United States had started in the South, where permit systems were designed to keep blacks, who had not been citizens, disarmed.  The laws were never meant to disarm the majority of the citizenry.  That strategy backfired, as more and more "progressives" were elected, and started to apply those prohibitions to all.

The concept was promoted by the increasing power of the "progressive" movement,  a movement that rested on the theory that the majority of the people were too stupid to govern themselves, and that the "consent of the governed" must be manufactured by the elite, particularly the elite that controlled mass media.

"Progressives" spread the concept into states outside the South.  In New York, with the infamous Sullivan law, meant to protect the corrupt criminal/political Tammany Gang of New York, and California, where the elite wanted to be able to keep Hispanics and Chinese minorities disarmed and controlled.  Notably, neither New York or California have a state constitutional protection for the right to keep and bear arms.  They are two of only six states that lack such protection.

The "progressive" media cartel, formed by the early newspaper chains and the Associated Press, nurtured and strengthened by the FCC, censorship during WWII, and the leftist takeover of the journalism schools and the networks in the 1960's, pushed the notion of citizen disarmament relentlessly.

The media cartel no longer has the ability to control the information flow.  It has been superseded by technological advances, just as it was made possible by the rise of the mass media.  It can no longer prop up the absurd notion that people are safer when they are disarmed.

The last shreds of disinformation used to create that illusion have disintegrated with the victory of concealed carry activists across the United States.  Those victories forced the Supreme Court to uphold the Second Amendment.  In practical terms, it has shown that armed citizens are more law biding than the average police officer.

Donald Trump is speaking a truth that cannot be denied.  Long ago, before the media cartel started its incessant propaganda to convince Americans that they were safer when disarmed, Niccolo Machiavelli, the archetypal scholar of power politics said it this way:
There is no comparison whatever between an armed and disarmed man; it is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe.... - Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince. 1537.
Donald Trump, leading by example, is becoming the armed leader that a free people can respect.  Not long ago, we learned, unsurprisingly, that Ronald Reagan routinely went about armed

Can  anyone imagine the current "progressive" leadership having the sense to extol an armed citizenry as one of the great defensive resources of the Republic?  Can anyone imagine one of the "progressive" candidates leading by example?   In a recent debate, all three Democrat candidates fell over themselves, trying to find ways that they could disarm Americans through deceit.

That horse has left the stable.

Donald Trump has shown that he trusts the American people.  "Progressives" show that they fear and distrust the people, who they believe are too stupid to govern themselves.

©2015 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.  Link to Gun Watch


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What other candidate is leading by example like Donald Trump? What other candidate is saying the obvious, that concealed carriers should carry more often, to add to the security of a nation under threat?

Ted Cruz has shown great support for the Second Amendment, but he has not extolled the virtue of armed citizens, as daily adding to the Nation's ability to defend itself.

1 posted on 11/22/2015 5:09:20 AM PST by marktwain
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2 posted on 11/22/2015 5:14:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: marktwain

Waiting 1, 2, 3 for the Trump haters to post their bs re Trump, which have nothing to do with reality and not protecting our 2nd amendment rights as Trump does.


3 posted on 11/22/2015 5:23:35 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. More Obamacrap)
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To: marktwain

“Donald Trump has shown that he trusts the American people. “Progressives” show that they fear and distrust the people, who they believe are too stupid to govern themselves.”

Bingo!

There’s nothing the left fears more than an armed populous.


4 posted on 11/22/2015 5:28:42 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: marktwain

“Ted Cruz has shown great support for the Second Amendment, but he has not extolled the virtue of armed citizens, as daily adding to the Nation’s ability to defend itself.”

Ted is great on the issues, but Trump takes it one logical step further. Just like with immigration too.


5 posted on 11/22/2015 5:30:19 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: Grampa Dave

“Waiting 1, 2, 3 for the Trump haters to post their bs re Trump...”

I can read Trump’s mind and therefore I KNOW that he will IMMEDIATELY start Bloomberg-style GUN GRABBING.

Don’t be fooled, everyone, he’s just saying it to get elected!

(ha, got in first)


6 posted on 11/22/2015 5:42:23 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: marktwain

Ted Cruz

The Second Amendment to the Constitution isn’t for just protecting hunting rights, and it’s not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny - for the protection of liberty.

https://www.tedcruz.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Heller_Amicus_Brief.pdf


7 posted on 11/22/2015 5:49:37 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Travis McGee
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8 posted on 11/22/2015 6:06:20 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: marktwain

Which candidates carry while campaigning? Does Trump?

All carry fans should clarify and qualify their enthusiasm.

Don’t carry after a beer. Most stupid, embarassing actions with guns occur in altered mental state, even when not officially drunk.

Sober people who carry rarely have problems. We need more of them.

Of course, this is not limited to guns. The #1 correlation with almost all tragedies is alcohol with other mind altering substances (prozac, cocaine, etc) close behind.
Hunting tragedies? snowmobile, RV, swimming, boating tragedies? Domestic violence, tragedies in the home?
Alcohol is the #1 correlation.


9 posted on 11/22/2015 6:24:52 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: marktwain

Trump is the strongest candidate for President the GOP has had since Reagan. I cannot wait to vote for him. Whatever he manages to do will be a step in the right direction. Frankly if Trump accomplishes 25% of what he wants to do I will be happy.


10 posted on 11/22/2015 8:15:09 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: BobL

“I can read Trump’s mind and therefore I KNOW that he will IMMEDIATELY start Bloomberg-style GUN GRABBING”

What drug are you on? I just want to know so I can get some. :-)


11 posted on 11/22/2015 8:16:58 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I’m still ticked at the guy from last night that told me that Trump is lying when he says he’ll build a wall.

I figured I’d try sounding like him.


12 posted on 11/22/2015 8:23:34 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: BobL

I’m still getting yuks from the BLM guy that got an Alabama azz kicking at the Birmingham Trump rally. I guess he didn’t do much historical research about Alabama before busting up a Trump rally. LOL!

“They said go home N====r” “I was kicked by men and women”

Uh yeh I’m sure you were. Its Alabama. LOL!

You have to be from the South to fully understand Alabama.


13 posted on 11/22/2015 8:34:33 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: marktwain

Candidate Trump supports 2A rights.

Non-candidate Trump, not so much.


14 posted on 11/22/2015 9:27:12 AM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks marktwain. Sidebar:

Trump: I Would Bring Back Waterboarding, 'Peanuts Compared to What They Do to Us'

Hillary "What Difference Does It Make?" Clinton: People Are Fleeing Syria Because of "Climate Change"

Donald Trump supports the Keystone pipeline

Hillary Clinton: I Oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline (to combat global warming)


15 posted on 11/22/2015 9:36:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Too bad it wasn’t Neil Young.


16 posted on 11/22/2015 9:42:39 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: CPT Clay

Tag line.


17 posted on 11/22/2015 9:48:37 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: BobL

“To bad it wasn’t Neil Young”

“Southern boys don’t need him around anyhow” :-)


18 posted on 11/22/2015 10:05:36 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: marktwain; onyx; JustAmy; trisham; DJ MacWoW; RedMDer; musicman; Lady Jag; TheOldLady; Fiddlstix; ..

God, guns and guts made America, and God, guns and guts will secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity!

Go, Trump. GO!!


19 posted on 11/22/2015 12:03:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson; smoothsailing; All









20 posted on 11/22/2015 12:07:40 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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