Pelosi warns GOP: Next president could declare national emergency on guns

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Pelosi warns GOP: Next president could declare national emergency on guns
By Mike Lillis - 02/14/19 04:53 PM EST

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday issued a warning to Republicans poised to support President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border: the next Democratic president, she said, could do the same on guns.
 
"A Democratic president can declare emergencies, as well," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "So the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans."
 
Pelosi noted that Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 students and faculty dead. She argued that the real national emergency is not illegal border crossings, but gun violence in the U.S.
 
"Let's talk about today: The one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America," Pelosi said. "That's a national emergency. Why don't you declare that emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would.
 
"But a Democratic president can do that."
 
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) also shared a tweet calling several issues championed by Democrats, such as climate change and income inequality, a "national emergency."

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
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Gun violence is a national emergency

Climate Change is a national emergency

Income inequality is a national emergency

Access to healthcare is a national emergency

Building a wall on the southern border is not.
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[Free Vulcan]

That sounds like a threat to me.

[Wingnut]

Sorry...

[240B]

Not quite the same thing. The majority of Americans and legal immigrants WANT the wall to be built.
Declaring marital law to enact gun confiscation would be an immediate civil war.

These two things are galaxies apart.

[libertybele]

Not quite the same thing. The majority of Americans and legal immigrants WANT the wall to be built.
Declaring marital law to enact gun confiscation would be an immediate civil war.

These two things are galaxies apart.

The DEMS are becoming a party of something out of "The Twilight Zone".

[Right_in_Virginia]

Pelosi warns GOP: Next president could declare national emergency on guns

Bullshit.  If voiding the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution could be done by executive order/emergency declaration---Obama would have done it.

[Emjay]

Bullshit.  If voiding the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution could be done by executive order/emergency declaration---Obama would have done it.

I'm amazed that Nance threatened something so ridiculous. 

[dfwgator]

The Democrats would do it anyway, regardless of what Trumps.  It's a sunk cost.

[Sanguine]

Not quite the same thing. The majority of Americans and legal immigrants WANT the wall to be built.
Declaring marital law to enact gun confiscation would be an immediate civil war.

These two things are galaxies apart.

That and the fact that guns are actually included in our Constitution.

[roamer_1]

That and the fact that guns are actually included in our Constitution.

These people don't care a whit about the Constitution, and never have.
What matters is that the guns are included in our hands... As that is where the rubber meets the road.

[Sanguine]

These people don't care a whit about the Constitution, and never have.
What matters is that the guns are included in our hands... As that is where the rubber meets the road.

Of course they don't, it just makes it a bit harder for them to do.

[sneakypete]

Ahhhh,I love the smell of fear in the air!

Even the communists know that communism is so unpopular that it MUST be forced upon the people or it will never happen.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Good. Now we can have her Arrested and charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights.

She dies in prison unless she gives evidence against her co-conspirators.

[libertybele]

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy...her tactics are to keep lying to the people till the people believe the lies.

[Just_Victor]

I'm wondering why anyone thinks the democRATs wouldn't do this regardless of what Trump does right now?

[jmyrlefuller]

That and the fact that guns are actually included in our Constitution.

As is, coincidentally, the responsibility to protect this country from invasion.

When you have hordes of Central Americans charging the border by the thousands, I think that constitutes a WEE bit of an emergency. Which would make Speaker Pelosi guilty of treason.

[sneakypete]

As is, coincidentally, the responsibility to protect this country from invasion.

When you have hordes of Central Americans charging the border by the thousands, I think that constitutes a WEE bit of an emergency. Which would make Speaker Pelosi guilty of treason.

@jmyrlefuller

She,the entire DNC,and most of the alleged Republican Party ARE guilty of treason. We wouldn't be where we are now without the Bush Crime Family selling out America for cash and political power.

[GrouchoTex]

Ahhhh,I love the smell of fear in the air!

Even the communists know that communism is so unpopular that it MUST be forced upon the people or it will never happen.

Correct.
Tyranny always is enforced with guns pointed at the dissenters.

[libertybele]

As is, coincidentally, the responsibility to protect this country from invasion.

When you have hordes of Central Americans charging the border by the thousands, I think that constitutes a WEE bit of an emergency. Which would make Speaker Pelosi guilty of treason.

Gee, funny you should mention treason.  McCabe and Rosenstein just were implicated in a coup.  I'd like to really know why they aren't being brought up on treason. Both I believe to be part of the Clinton/Bush families of corruption.