'I am going to come through for you', Trump vows to NRA

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post


By John Wagner and Elise Viebeck April 28 at 3:40 PM

ATLANTA — On the eve of his 100th day in office, President Trump made a triumphant return before members of the National Rifle Association, promising a group that was one of his earliest and most enthusiastic supporters that he will “never infringe on the right of the people to bear arms.”

“Freedom is not a gift from government, freedom is a gift from God,” Trump said. Trump, the first sitting president to address the NRA since Ronald Reagan, delivered a fiery speech in which he recounted his election victory and early actions from his administration that are friendly to the gun rights group, and he promised there would be more to come.

“You came through big for me, and I am going to come through for you,” Trump told thousands of members attending the NRA’s annual convention. “The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.”

With his appearance here, Trump marked the coming 100-day milestone in much the same way he has governed in the early stages of his presidency: by appealing to his base. While his job approval numbers have been historically low for this point in his presidency, Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters are standing by him, polls show.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-am-going-to-come-through-for-you-trump-vows-to-nra/2017/04/28/3258b3e6-2c20-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.fe7d3b72fa9f&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

[George II]

1. 'I am going to come through for you', ahem, 'me'.

[doc03]

2. Just what was this assualt on the 2nd Amendment the last 8 years? What rights did

they lose? I don't know of any. Gun sales are down now though.

[jmowreader]

14. There were frequent ammo shortages during Obama's tenure

My papers were getting so many "Obama's buying up all the ammo to keep anyone else from getting it" letters and comments on our websites that finally our managing editor sent reporters to talk to all the gun store owners in the five northern counties of Idaho. They all came back with the same story: the government isn't buying any more ammo than they usually do; civilian gun owners are buying so much of it they can't safely make any more. And THEN we started getting letters claiming we put words in the gun store owners' mouths and the government was buying it all whether the lying gun store owners say so or not. The biggest gun store in town finally asked their suppliers to send them "no, it's not the government's fault" letters, which they posted on the door.

Obama was to the gun manufacturers what the Volstead Act was to the mob: he provided the impetus for so many people to buy guns that the manufacturers are now financially set from here to eternity. In the years Obama was in office, our biggest gun store managed to open one store selling "Life is Good" clothes and another store selling every kind of outdoorsy thing EXCEPT for guns (remember, he still has the big gun store) then when another sporting goods store in town closed he bought their old building and merged his two sporting goods stores into it and doubled his floor space in the process, then realized he had so much business he needed to reopen the original gun store building...yes, Obama was unintentionally GREAT for the gun business especially when you remember the biggest expansion of gun rights in the last 100 years (being allowed to carry in national parks) has Obama's signature at the bottom of it.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The downtrodden, oppressed NRA vicious fools need a savior, don't they? n/t

[They_Live]

4. so we'll be all able to open carry

in your WH, right? Especially the mentally ill? It's OUR house.


oh

[JudyM]

5. Guns were prohibited at his NRA meeting.

[JudyM]

6. What a blatant quid pro quo: he's going to protect their interest because they "came through

big" for him. I hope Ethics Oversight is paying attention. And that the MSM remembers this in 2020.

[Paladin]

7. trump and those NRA suck-holes deserve one another. (nt)

[mikehiggins]

8. Let me get this straight? The NRA needs Trump to protect them?

Could the world get any crazier? The NRA is directly responsible for politicians letting children get mowed down in their school classes and THESE GUN LOVERS are the ones we should look out for?

Bizzarroland!!

[turbinetree]

9. Hey NRA, FU and the horse you road in on..and FU to the serial sexual predator .............

he shouldn't have water gun, because after all he said that he could walk down 5th Avenue and shoot someone and know one would care, hey asshole, maybe some one would f***ing care if you had a gun, your a f***ing pathological liar

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "Freedom is not a gift from government, freedom is a gift from God"

Who wrote that for him? Sounds like Pence.

[atreides1]

12. God and freedom

Like jumbo shrimp, another oxymoron!!!

[hatrack]

11. Idaho gun, ammo makers cheer on Trump as their sales plummet - Actual Headline

Barack Obama was a godsend for companies in the gun and ammunition business.

Backgrounds checks for weapons purchases increased every year during the Obama presidency. They set a record of nearly 2.8 million in December 2012, the month of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. They set another record, 3.3 million, in December 2015, the month of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.

Fear that Obama would restrict gun rights spurred sales, said Stacey Nagy, national sales manager for Primary Weapons Systems, a gun maker in Boise. Democrats such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also stoked sales by calling for restricting gun rights after high-profile mass shootings.

Under Donald Trump, business has plummeted. Primary Weapons Systems’ sales are down about 35 percent since Trump’s election last November. Ammunition, gun and accessories makers in Idaho and other states have laid off workers.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article144009024.html#storylink=cpy

[Eugene]

13. Senator Responds to Trump's N.R.A. Speech With Photos of Shooting Victims

Source: New York Times

Senator Responds to Trump’s N.R.A. Speech With Photos of Shooting Victims

By MATT STEVENSAPRIL 28, 2017

As President Trump took the stage to champion the Second Amendment at a National Rifle Association convention on Friday, a United States senator sought to counter his message by unleashing a Twitter storm using the names, ages and pictures of gun violence victims.

Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, who has fought for increased gun control since the 2012 school massacre in his home state, posted on Twitter on Friday morning to urge his followers not to watch Mr. Trump’s speech and instead, “think about who we are fighting for.”

Link to tweet

Mr. Murphy then posted 11 messages showing the faces of shooting victims, many of whom were children, including four of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.

In a statement on Friday to The New York Times, he said he had started the tweet storm because he knew that “the substance” of the gun-control debate would get “totally lost” amid coverage of the president’s speech in Atlanta.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/politics/christopher-murphy-guns-trump.html

[smirkymonkey]

15. I hate these people so much.

They are the scum of the earth.

[0rganism]

16. by declaring open season on black people and immigrants?

that's what the dog whistle sounds like to me, but i'm not really his target audience