{"id":95620,"date":"2018-02-28T19:06:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95620"},"modified":"2018-02-28T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:07:00","slug":"take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95620","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTake the guns first, go through due process second.\u201d &#8212; President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump: &#8216;Take the guns first, go through due process second&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->BY BRETT SAMUELS<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=ndn&amp;videoId=33576256\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man\u2019s case that just took place in Florida &#8230; to go to court would have taken a long time,\u201d Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake the guns first, go through due process second,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was responding to comments from Vice President Pence that families and local law enforcement should have more tools to report potentially dangerous individuals with weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllow due process so no one\u2019s rights are trampled, but the ability to go to court, obtain an order and then collect not only the firearms but any weapons,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or, Mike, take the firearms first, and then go to court,&#8221; Trump responded.<\/p>\n<p>Trump met with lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss gun laws and school safety in the aftermath of a Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0suspected shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was able to legally purchase the AR-15 reportedly used in the shooting despite numerous calls to law enforcement about his unstable behavior.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: &#8216;Take the guns first, go through due process second&#8217;<\/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-95620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95620","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=95620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}