Donald Trump has spent his entire presidential campaign wooing gun owners with promises that he will protect the 2nd Amendment. Gun owners lapped it up.
During his kickoff speech in June 2015, Trump vowed to “fully support and back up the Second Amendment.”
“We’re going to cherish the Second Amendment,” Trump said during a May 7 campaign stop in Washington state.
“We love the Second Amendment, folks. Nobody loves it more than us, so just remember that,” Trump said to cheers and applause from his supporters who were gathered at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
“You have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. You have that right and they want to take it away,” Trump said in January.
We have long known that Hillary Clinton wanted to “take it away.” She has been unapologetic in her decades-long quest to disarm America. She said earlier this year she supported an Australia-style gun confiscation program. She supports a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” which is a nebulous and meaningless term in reality. It’s a code word applied to a class of weapons that simply look and function a certain way.
She couches it in the code words “common sense,” but what she means by that is that idiot politicians and pointy-headed cubicle dwellers who know nothing about guns and likely never even handled one will determine what type of guns are acceptable (which eventually means none) and which aren’t (right now those that are black and “scary-looking” and have big 30-round “clips”).
Once one excuse to steal people’s guns – no matter how specious – becomes “common sense,” then the next excuse and the next excuse and the next excuse all seem more reasonable and eventually become “common sense.” It’s called gradualism and it is step one in the progressive playbook.
As with all totalitarians, if the Witch from Chappaqua has her way, only her bodyguards and those of her elite establishment pals would have guns. That’s because their safety and their “rights” trump those of the hoi polloi.
But Trump really wants to “take it away,” too.
Last week Trump revealed that either he has no concept of liberty and is no protector of the 2nd Amendment (or many others, for that matter), or he is in fact a shadow totalitarian gun grabber. This became evident when he came out in support of “stop and frisk,” a policy made famous by the statist Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York in which police randomly snag people walking by and shake them down on a whim.
During last night’s presidential debate, Trump doubled down on his call for stop and frisk. Then he expanded on his planned assault on liberty claiming that those on the “no-fly” list should be prohibited from buying guns.
Both of these polices are anti-liberty and direct assaults on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Amendments.
During a lawsuit over New York’s “stop and frisk” policy, New York State Senator and former police officer Eric Adams testified that the sole purpose of the policy – as stated by New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly — was to instill fear in New Yorkers, particularly blacks and Hispanics.
While the policy was in place over 10 years, some 5 million people were stopped by New York police for no reason other than they were walking down the street. Nearly 90 percent of them were either black or Hispanic. They were not singled out because they were suspected of committing a crime. Kelly just wanted to know whether they were carrying a gun.
Adams said: “[Kelly] stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instill fear in them that every time that they left their homes they could be stopped by police.” The statement came during discussions with the elected class in New York, including former Democratic Governor David Paterson, who was deciding whether to block the NYPD from compiling a database of individuals stopped by police.
You can read more about this egregious policy in “NYPD’s policy under Kelly: ‘Instill fear.’” Trump intends to make this a national policy.
Using the flawed “no-fly list” or the equally-flawed “terrorist watch list” to strip Americans of their rights is another assault on due process, and both terms are more code words. The terror watch list and the no-fly list are arbitrary lists of some 700,000 people who may or may not have any ties to terrorism.
The list was begun under the regime of George Bush the lesser in the wake of 9/11. It is composed of names submitted by government organizations, and one can find his name on the list for no apparent reason. And many people have. The list includes journalists, congressweasels, their spouses, nonviolent political activists, actors, former military members and at least 72 employees of the Department of Homeland Security.
You can read more about this in “’Terror watch list’ and ‘Common sense gun laws’ are code words designed to get you to surrender your rights.”
Trump also supports requiring concealed carry permits, which is a system in which your right to defend yourself is taken away and you are required to purchase it back (and in some states perform to the satisfaction of some government functionary). Concealed carry permits do nothing to stop crime and are nothing more than revenue streams to government.
“Stop and frisk” and both the “no-fly list” and “terrorist watch list” are all direct violations the 4th and 5th Amendments, particularly the 5th Amendment’s “due process” clause.
The Founders are doubtless spinning in their graves that Americans are considering either of these people for president.
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