Trump Lies To The Gullible

Need proof that Trump really does love the ignorant? Check out his claim that Hillary wants to eliminate the 2nd Amendment:

Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said that the November election would be a referendum on the Second Amendment and asserted that Mrs. Clinton, his likely Democratic opponent, wanted to abolish the right to bear arms.

“Crooked Hillary Clinton is the most anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment candidate ever to run for office,” he said.

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Mr. Trump also unveiled a new moniker for Mrs. Clinton — “Heartless Hillary” — and said that her policies on guns and criminal justice would make women less safe. “Hillary wants to disarm vulnerable Americans in high-crime neighborhoods,” Mr. Trump said.

In the first place, no single individual has the authority to alter the Constitution in any way. The process by which changes can be made are clearly outlined within the Constitution, and requires that 2/3 of the states agree and ratify the changes. There is ZERO chance that this can happen, even for Her High-And-Mightiness. There is no chance that the courts will go there. It's been tried many times.

But that doesn't stop The Donald from stirring up the rabble, who clearly don't know that the Constitution is ever so much more than merely the right for well-regulated (read: self-appointed) militias to bear arms.

I am not one to advocate the complete elimination of firearms when the government is clearly interested in having its way regardless of the law. But when does your little Glock 9mm defend you against the militarized police when they come for you? If for some strange reason you prove to be enough of a nuisance with your pop-gun that they have to call in heavier force, what are you going to do when that Hellfire knocks on your door and asks for you?

The brainless NRA defense of universal freedom for gun owners has caused the police to become more militarized, and faster to shoot to kill. You don't even need to be armed anymore to risk being subjected to summary police justice. San Francisco's Police Chief just resigned because the people there are fed up with summary police justice, the latest victim of which was an unarmed black woman.

And yet, will the NRA dare to defend this asshole, who couldn't discipline a 3-year-old without several witnesses saying he deliberately aimed and shot him in the head?

When the NRA relents enough to keep firearms out of the hands of those who clearly shouldn't have them, I might let them off the hook. But until then, they are as much my enemy as militarized police are. And Drumpf can STFU.

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WindDancer13's picture

than HRC saying that Sanders should apologize to the families of the Sandy Hook victims.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

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When she vocally condemns Bernie for his stance on gun manufacturer liability in the primaries and deploys Sandy Hook as a political issue. When Hillary and her lackeys (re: paid internet trolls) have been hammering away at how "bad" the guy on the left is with guns, saying ridiculous things like "Bernie's in the pocket of the NRA," of course Trump is going to use it as a wedge issue to attack her and shore up his base.

This is precisely why we, as liberals, need to clean our own house before taking on conservatives. If you stand for nothing and are willing to say anything to win in the short term, this is what happens. Trump will get away with these idiotic attacks because of the tactics that Hillary herself has deployed, and in the digital age where everything is recorded, it's not difficult to put together a 30 second ad of lines from her rallies in Connecticut that make it seem like she wants to take people's guns away.

Now, don't get me wrong. I think the NRA is a disgusting organization and Trump is a liar. One of the areas where I disagree with Bernie is on gun control. We do need to do more, a lot more. But I think that we also need to really think of the bigger political picture here when talking about how the issue of firearms and gun control has been addressed in this election cycle.

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the gun control issue forever,hrc brought this on by attacking Bernie on the issue. She has made her bed so she can fend for herself.I certainly would not defend her in any shape ,form or fashion!

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what Trump says about Hillary, although sometimes I do hear what he says. To be totally honest, I enjoy some of the things Trump says about Hillary because he's spot-on.

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Sandino's picture

So we can distinguish this one from the 5 decades of Trump lies to the gullible that preceded it.

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