In an off-the-cuff remark at a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, the Republican nominee told the crowd that “Second Amendment people” may somehow react if Clinton, Trump’s Democratic challenger, were to become president and choose a Supreme Court nominee they didn’t like. Which we all know the NRA knows.
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He was pointing out the differences between himself and Clinton when he said: “Hillary wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment”. He then paused, adding one of his trademark Trump zingers, “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I dunno”. There’s nothing you can do folks.
The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. To play Pokemon Go or use their guns in retaliation for this act of democracy.
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in three crucial 2016 battleground states, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist surveys. They don’t deserve it.
“Tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, “@realDonaldTrump makes death threats because he’s a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl”. “Donald Trump does not reflect historical Republican values nor the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country”, Ms Collins wrote in the Washington Post.
The response from Clinton and her supporters was swift.
Trump’s comments were the latest example of his unscripted style causing him political headaches, at a time when he has been trying to get his campaign back on track after a string of self inflicted political missteps last week.
Clinton supports some new restrictions on gun ownership, but does not advocate overturning the amendment. Trump has turned this tactic into an art form.
Trump claims that liberal judges could threaten the second amendment.
Tuesday’s speech came on the heels of a discordant week on the campaign trail for Trump, a businessman seeking his first public office. Utterly unsafe & could incite an unstable person to awful violence.
US Secret Service Communications Director Cathy Milhoan told CNN “The US Secret Service is aware of Mr Trump’s comments”.
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The 50 prominent national security officials said in their letter on Monday that Trump would be “the most reckless president in American history”.
