During a meeting with Democratic and Republican lawmakers, Donald Trump surprised many when he suggested taking people's guns away - whether or not it was legal.
From HuffPost:
For years, the National Rifle Association has been warning gun-loving Americans of a president who will take away their firearms, no matter what the Second Amendment says.
On Wednesday, that conservative nightmare became a reality when the current Republican U.S. president, Donald Trump, proposed taking away people’s guns, even without the legal right to do so.
“Take the guns first. Go through due process second,” Trump said at a meeting with Democratic and Republican lawmakers at the White House. “I like taking the guns early.”
Trump said law enforcement officers should specifically have taken the firearms possessed by Nikolas Cruz, the suspected gunman in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.
“I think they should have taken them away, whether they had the right or not,” he said.
Imagine if President Obama had said out loud, "Take the guns."
So, umm, Trumpers - how do you feel about the Trumpeter wanting to "take guns first; do due diligence second?"
President Trump proposes taking guns away from owners before going to court.— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 28, 2018
"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." pic.twitter.com/ZtNNwyzTzA
Trump surprisingly shamed lawmakers on the age of buying an assault weapon at 18 but not having legal rights to a hand gun until 21 years-old.
"You don't address it... you know why? Because you're afraid of the NRA, right?" Trump said today.
Pres. Trump asks lawmakers why they haven't addressed increasing the minimum age for purchasing firearms in their proposed legislation: "You don't address it... you know why? Because you're afraid of the NRA, right?" https://t.co/9eiKYloz2I pic.twitter.com/j00oaGawUC— ABC News (@ABC) March 1, 2018
Trump is openly advocating taking peoples' guns without due process, in case you wanted to tell your paranoid relatives and friends they've been afraid of the wrong people.— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 28, 2018
NRA's Dana Loesch promptly stopped livetweeting the Trump/Congress meeting after Trump said "I like taking the guns early. Take the guns first, go through due process second."— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) February 28, 2018
The NRA would've issued a drone strike on the White House had Obama said that. pic.twitter.com/xsom68Xig0
Feinstein: What do we do with weapons of war?— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) February 28, 2018
Trump: You can’t buy those in stores, those are black market guns
Feinstein: You can buy AR-15’s in stores
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