Donald Trump’s 2nd amendment insanity
Does the billionaire’s gun-rights platform out-crazy his immigration plan?
While watching Donald Trump’s recent televised whatever-that-was in Dallas, during which the GOP frontrunner rambled on from one self-congratulatory superlative to the next, I wondered how long it’d be before he upped the ante and appeared on stage carrying an assault rifle.
After all, Trump’s months-long crusade to vilify Mexicans is beginning to wear thin, and as of last week, while he remains the clear frontrunner, candidates Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have started to make inroads in the polls. It only makes sense that Trump would segue onto another topic that’d inspire googly-eyed rage from the his fanboys. And what better topic than firearms and gun rights? Not only would he loop in the libertarian and “liberty movement” crackpots, but the Second Amendment always tends to bring out racists. The core of Trump’s support has been built around bigoted nationalists, so why not?
Thus, it comes as no surprise that Trump finally added his second position page to his official campaign website last week. Now, in addition to “Immigration,” we can learn about Trump’s views on “Second Amendment Rights.” Finally. Because I’m sure he’s been hunkered down with his policy advisers discussing truly groundbreaking approaches to both resolving gun violence while somehow preserving the notion that the Second Amendment is an absolute right to own as many guns of all varieties as we want.
In truth, there’s nothing particularly innovative on Trump’s Second Amendment page, even in the context of a subculture that speaks in fragmented NRA bumper-sticker zingers. Right off the bat, his position is absolute: “The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/donald_trumps_2nd_amendment_insanity_does_the_billionaires_gun_rights_platform_out_crazy_his_immigration_plan/
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