Breaking: 1 Presidential Candidate Just Changed Their Position On An Assault Rifle Ban Screen Shot 2016-03-04 at 5.02.12 PM
The ever loathsome assault rifle is something liberals love to hate.
If you listen to them they would say the assault rifle is the most dangerous thing on the planet, that’s why they want them banned so badly.
What you might not have known is up until a few days ago Donald Trump supported a ban on assault rifles. Now, not so much.
Politico notes that one of those “flips” was reversing position on his prior support for banning the civilian ownership of common semi-automatic rifles and pistols that Trump and his fellow Democrats have long demonized as “assault weapons.”
Donald Trump on Thursday night said he no longer supports a ban on assault weapons, another in a series of policy reversals during the Republican debate.
Stressing that he is a strong defender of the Second Amendment, Trump commented that past shooting incidents could have been prevented or lessened in impact if more people could carry weapons.
“But in 2000, you wrote in your book, ‘I generally oppose gun control but I support the ban on assault weapons,'” moderator Bret Baier queried.
“I don’t support it anymore. I do not support the ban on assault [weapons],” Trump affirmed.
A lot of people are worried Trump will flip flop on this issue again, and that it might happen after he’s won the election for President.
Trump has said he’s a staunch supporter of the second amendment. Many people call that into question considering how he supported an assault weapons ban a number of years ago.
Poster Comment:
An "assault rifle" is one with selective fire that you can switch from semi-auto to full auto and back again. Standard semi-auto rifles are no such thing.