Title: ‘Take the guns first’: Trump backs gun control at bipartisan White House meeting Source:
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‘Take the guns first’: Trump backs gun control at bipartisan White House meeting
Published time: 1 Mar, 2018 03:36 Edited time: 1 Mar, 2018 13:00
President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through US politics during a White House meeting with lawmakers, appearing to endorse Democrats’ proposals for gun control while shutting down those from fellow Republicans.
Trump sat down with over a dozen lawmakers on Wednesday, two weeks after a former student killed 17 people and wounded 14 others at a Parkland, Florida high school. He seemed enthusiastic about tougher background checks proposed by Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and a 2013 bill proposed by Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia).
“You have a different president now,” he said. He told the lawmakers that he would be outlawing “bump stocks” with an executive order by the end of the week and urged them to combine their proposals into a single “beautiful” bill he could sign, and soon.
Trump also urged the lawmakers to do something “very decisive” about the mentally ill.
“I don’t want mentally ill people to be having guns,” he said, going so far as to argue the government should “take the guns first, go through due process second” in cases of individuals with mental illness who pose a danger to themselves and others.
Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence advocated due process first, while Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) pointed out that many people with mental illness are not a danger and outlawing their access to firearms would be unfair.
When Democrats cautioned that the National Rifle Association (NRA) would be against their proposals, Trump mocked them for being “afraid” of the NRA. “They have great power over you people,” he said.
“I’m a big fan of the NRA … These are great people, these are great patriots,” he said. “They love our country. But that doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything.”
The president was also dismissive of the concealed-carry reciprocity proposal floated by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), who was seriously wounded in the October 2017 shooting at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia.
“You’ll never get this passed. If you add concealed carry to this you’ll never get it passed. Let it be a separate bill,” Trump told Scalise. Some conservative commentators - and fierce Trump critics - were incensed by the comments.
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch was also perturbed by Trump’s comments.
“We’re talking about punishing innocent Americans and stripping their rights without due process,” she told Fox News on Wednesday evening. “Due process must be respected...It is the foundational principle of this country.”
Loesch was also opposed to a proposal to raise the age limit for gun purchases from 18 to 21, which Trump seemed to approve of in the meeting.
“Making people wait does not solve psychosis,” she argued.
There is a good chance the age restriction may go into effect even without a law. Dick’s Sporting Goods, a major seller of outdoors equipment, announced on Wednesday that it would no longer sell firearms to customers under the age of 21. Walmart followed suit later in the day, saying it was the right decision “in light of recent events.”
Protecting the Second Amendment was Trump’s second campaign plank, right after immigration. Following the Florida school shooting, Democrats reached out to gun control groups to see how they could politicize the issue to their advantage in the upcoming midterm elections in November, according to the Washington Post.
“Let’s not set our sights too narrow or squander this moment,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on Tuesday, prompting the Post to report how the party is planning to torpedo Murphy’s background check bill in order to push for more expansive gun control legislation.
Fourteen months later and nothing yet has happened.
Maybe DJT,jr got him straightened out on this matter.
Reopen all the state mental hospitals, asap. They would be filled in weeks.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
The lack of born-again Christians, not mouth-breathing ones, in DC and in this country is staggering.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#4. To: Lod, Hogg Bros, Take The Guns (#1)(Edited)
Fourteen months later and nothing yet has happened
President Trump Banned Bump Stocks by Executive Order.
Current WH policy is to push States to pass Red Flag gun confiscations - take the guns first, due process later. IMO, it's likely to be passed federally if Trump gets a second term.
Raise age for guns to 21, being pushed by Trump.
Wants to make already illegal Background Checks, tougher. Universal Background Checks (Close the Gun Show Loophole) if the Gun Grabber in Chief gets reelected, IMO.
The Hogg Bros are on the same page - Take The Guns
Hogg Bros, Donnell & David
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I was a staunch supporter of The Wall back in the day.
Now that it is apparent that the Globalists have won, USA Inc is going to be absolutely flooded (think 100,000,000 more) and it sure seems that yall being walled in by a bunch of Rothschild Zionists that did it - that is A GRAND TRAP imo.
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