{"id":291431,"date":"2024-07-17T07:15:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291431"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:19:30","slug":"why-i-expect-trump-to-go-soft-on-second-amendment-now-that-hes-been-targeted-for-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291431","title":{"rendered":"Why I expect Trump to go soft on Second Amendment now that he’s been targeted for assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter July 16, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Republican National Committee has removed almost every reference to the right to keep and bear arms from the 2024 party platform, a signal that those at the top of the ticket will be positioned to compromise on the issue.<\/p>\n

Trump has in the past already supported one of the most pernicious anti-Second Amendment policies \u2013 so-called red-flag laws \u2013 which allow authorities to confiscate a citizen\u2019s firearms without any crime having been committed or any solid evidence that a crime has been planned. All that is needed is an accusation by someone, anyone, that you as a gun owner could be a threat to yourself or someone else.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the exact quote from Trump, made in 2018, where he advocated seizing firearms from Americans without any proof that they\u2019re about to commit a crime, then going to court later to figure out if it was justified:<\/p>\n

\u201cTake the firearms first and then go to court, because that\u2019s another system. Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early.<\/strong> Like in this crazy man\u2019s case that just took place in Florida, he had a lot of firearms \u2013 they saw everything \u2013 to go to court would have taken a long time, so you could do exactly what you\u2019re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, while president, also moved to ban bump stocks.<\/p>\n

But despite the party elites watering down the GOP platform\u2019s commitment to the Second Amendment, the party\u2019s rank-and-file members are showing no signs of moving toward gun control.<\/p>\n

The pro-2A website Bearing Arms<\/a><\/strong> reports that a pair of Reuters reporters covering the RNC in Milwaukee found out that delegates are still as firm as they’ve ever been when it comes to support of the Second Amendment. The reporters were shocked. They thought the targeting of Trump by a would-be assassin firing an AR-15 rifle at Trump\u2019s head would have had the desired effect. They were wrong.<\/p>\n

Bearing Arms writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cTim Reid and Helen Coster are supposed to be straight news reporters, but they couldn’t help but inject a\u00a0note of incredulity<\/a>\u00a0in their filing; how on earth could these delegates\u00a0still\u00a0oppose a ban on so-called assault weapons after their party leader was nearly killed by an assassin with an AR-15 last weekend?\u00a0Yet in interviews with 12 Donald Trump delegates at his Republican Party nominating convention in Milwaukee, none advocated for limits or bans on assault rifles, raising the legal age to buy a gun, or even more robust background checks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The delegates interviewed were dead set against any laws imposing new restrictions on firearms.<\/p>\n

Which is exactly the right response.<\/p>\n

The website asks, rightly so, what kind of reforms would have stopped this attack from taking place?<\/p>\n

The gun that was used in the assassination attempt was legally purchased more than a decade ago, so universal background checks and raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 wouldn’t have made a difference.<\/p>\n

What about banning the AR-15 gun itself?<\/p>\n

The killer could have just as easily used a bolt-action rifle, which in fact is the rifle of choice for many snipers. They\u2019re slower to reload but extremely accurate.<\/p>\n

The problem isn’t the hardware or the tool. The problem is the heart of the murderer.<\/p>\n

If Trump goes soft on the Second Amendment, he wont\u2019 be the first Republican to go over to the dark side. President Ronald Reagan\u2019s press secretary, James Brady, was a solid 2A supporter until he took a bullet from Reagan\u2019s would-be assassin, John Hinkley Jr., and wound up in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope Trump doesn\u2019t similarly waver.<\/p>\n

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All the signs point to Trump becoming the next James Brady, a Republican who converted to the dark side on gun control<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-trump-attepted-assassination"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291432,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291431\/revisions\/291432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}