{"id":121927,"date":"2019-05-01T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=121927"},"modified":"2019-05-01T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T21:56:13","slug":"trump-the-nra-and-the-secret-scheme-to-foist-gun-control-on-american-and-stealthily-gut-the-2nd-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=121927","title":{"rendered":"Trump, the NRA and the secret scheme to foist gun control on America and stealthily gut the 2nd Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Tells NRA, \u2018The Left is Coming for Your Guns\u2019 As He\u2019s Been Quietly Taking Your Guns All Along<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Matt Agorist,\u00a0The Free Thought Project:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft td-animation-stack-type0-2\" src=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/trump-guns-696x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Donald Trump just spoke to the NRA, claiming that the \u201cleft is coming for your guns,\u201d but he ignored the fact that he and the right are coming for them too.<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis, IN \u2014 On Friday, President Donald Trump vowed to fight for the Second Amendment rights of Americans as he spoke to members of the National Rifle Association. While Trump claimed to be a champion of gun rights, however, his record says something entirely different.<\/p>\n<p>During the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wane.com\/news\/indiana\/trump-to-address-a-divided-national-rifle-association\/1956235161?fbclid=IwAR1U5jK3gfL4wPeAM_jtND0PvhF0dyFDOTRl9gEAr4yMGuBZSOS6fOyw_OI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speech,<\/a>\u00a0Trump claimed that the \u201cleft is coming for your guns,\u201d and he\u2019s correct. But so is the right, and so is Trump.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQYHzdvS_tw?feature=oembed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As politicians and anti-gun rights activists continuously chant, \u201cwe don\u2019t want to take your guns,\u201d behind the scenes \u2014 in only a year \u2014 politicians have been working overtime to limit your right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>What Trump\u2019s speech to the NRA on Friday proves is the incredibly short memory of his support base. Have they all forgotten that Trump recently made one of the most damning attacks on the Second Amendment of any president yet?<\/p>\n<p>In case you are one of those folks, in February of 2018, after the tragic shooting in Parkland, FL, President Donald Trump took to national television to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/trump-take-guns-first-due-process\/\">betray his oath<\/a>\u00a0to the Constitution and his supporters and famously said,\u00a0<strong>\u201ctake the guns first, go through due process second.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is quite incredible how his rhetoric among his fake friends at the NRA is drastically different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s under assault,\u201d Trump said Friday in regard to the 2nd Amendment, ignoring the fact that he is part of that assault. \u201cBut not while we\u2019re here,\u201d he claimed, acting like he\u2019d never tried to remove gun rights from Americans.<\/p>\n<p>If you doubt this assertion of Trump attacking the 2nd Amendment, simply realize that just as some gun rights groups flip-flop on protecting the right to keep and bear arms from federal encroachment, so has Trump. Not only has he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/07\/29\/report-trump-administration-ramps-up-enforcement-of-federal-gun-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ramped up federal gun control enforcement<\/a>, but he has unilaterally implemented new federal gun control in the form of a<a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/gun-owners-refuse-to-obey-ban\/\">bump stock ban.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just bump stocks and due process that Trump wants. Last year, the Post went deeper, alluding to the fact that Trump will likely go further than bump stocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn private, he has indicated that he might do more, telling advisers and friends in recent days that he is determined to\u00a0<strong>push for some sort of gun-control legislation<\/strong>, according to people familiar with the conversations,\u201d the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that Jeff Bezos\u2019 Washington Post would love to see all guns pulled from the hands of law abiding citizens, we can assume that their \u201csource\u201d is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, himself, even tweeted out that he wants Republicans and Democrats to come together for gun control, just last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whether we are Republican or Democrat, we must now focus on strengthening Background Checks!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966119932793585664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In reality, this president is just like the president before him in regards to removing your rights to protect yourself and your family. Sadly, however, people still buy into the ridiculous rhetoric used to stoke divide.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, we can see that toward the end of his speech, we hear what Trump\u2019s rhetoric was really about \u2014 getting people out to vote for Republicans \u2014 using fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou better get out there and vote,\u201d the gun grabber in chief said of the 2020 election, \u201cIt seems like it\u2019s a long ways away. It\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2019\/04\/trump-tells-nra-the-left-is-coming-for-your-guns-as-hes-been-quietly-taking-your-guns-all-along\/\">https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2019\/04\/trump-tells-nra-the-left-is-coming-for-your-guns-as-hes-been-quietly-taking-your-guns-all-along\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Tells NRA, \u2018The Left is Coming for Your Guns\u2019 As He\u2019s Been Quietly Taking Your Guns All Along<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}