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Title: Trump says Second Amendment is 'under very serious attack' in Virginia ahead of gun-rights rally
Post by: EdinVA on January 18, 2020, 02:07:16 am
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President Trump  (https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump)on Friday declared the Second Amendment (https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/personal-freedoms/second-amendment) is “under very serious attack” in Virginia amid a contentious gun debate in the commonwealth and ahead of a controversial gun-rights rally in Richmond on Monday.
“Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia,” the president tweeted.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-second-amendment-gun-rights-rally (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-second-amendment-gun-rights-rally)
Title: Re: Trump says Second Amendment is 'under very serious attack' in Virginia ahead of gun-rights rally
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 18, 2020, 03:19:22 am
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Democrats said they were reasonable measures that would improve public safety while respecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. They said the public had made clear by voting for Democrats in recent elections that new gun laws were needed.

Just wait until the next election. No one elected anyone to infringe on their God-given, Constitutionally protected Rights.
Title: Re: Trump says Second Amendment is 'under very serious attack' in Virginia ahead of gun-rights rally
Post by: EdinVA on January 18, 2020, 03:26:40 am
Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 18, 2020, 03:19:22 am
Just wait until the next election. No one elected anyone to infringe on their God-given, Constitutionally protected Rights.
I sure hope your right..
Title: Re: Trump says Second Amendment is 'under very serious attack' in Virginia ahead of gun-rights rally
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 18, 2020, 03:38:52 am
Quote from: EdinVA on January 18, 2020, 03:26:40 am
I sure hope your right..
If everyone hasn't been marched off to the gulag, I think a gun control/ban repeal and amnesty for holdouts platform would get resounding support at the grass roots.
Title: Re: Trump says Second Amendment is 'under very serious attack' in Virginia ahead of gun-rights rally
Post by: libertybele on January 18, 2020, 03:48:13 am
Quote from: EdinVA on January 18, 2020, 03:26:40 am
I sure hope your right..

I hope so too.  I am concerned as 17 states and DC have passed some sort of red flag laws. That's infringing on the 2A period.  Those laws are already enacted.  Even when the governor of FL signed the red flag law, he was still later seated as a U.S. Senator.  The problem once again is we don't have enough conservatives running to oppose the liberals.

Trump is absolutely correct that the 2A is under very serious attack, but I don't believe it is just limited to VA.  Every state that has implemented red flag laws is under very serious attack.

I've been watching and perhaps I missed it, but wasn't there a push for federal red flag laws?  I thought that Trump had stated that he was in favor???