White House pushes Trump's commitment to gun rights after president meets top NRA lobbyist

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON and REBECCA MORIN 03/02/2018 12:17 AM EST Updated 03/02/2018 10:21 AM EST

President Donald Trump remains committed to defending Americans’ Second Amendment rights, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a brief exchange with reporters Friday morning that followed hours after the president met with NRA leaders.

Sanders Friday morning emphasis on gun rights marked another volley in the back and forth between Trump, who has voiced support for certain gun control measures in the wake of a mass shooting at a Florida high school last month, and Second Amendment advocates, among them the NRA and members of his own party, who have continued to oppose such steps.

Trump’s embrace of certain gun control measures has been met with raised eyebrows both from liberals skeptical of the president’s sincerity and from conservatives confused by his divergence from the NRA, which endorsed him during the 2016 and has been among his most consistent backers.

At a White House meeting on Wednesday, Trump chided GOP lawmakers for being “afraid of the NRA” and undercut gun rights advocates by suggesting that the government ought to skirt due process rules take guns away those suspected of posing a public safety risk.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/02/trump-nra-due-process-guns-433531?lo=ap_a1

[Beartracks]

1. Does Trump just feel "safe" in proposing this, knowing...

... that it will never happen in a Republican congress?

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[Cold War Spook]

3. Yes and no

Yes he knows that banning assault rifles will not pass and kind of a no. He is against assault rifles or at least he was well before his run for office. At that time too he hated abortions but felt it was the woman's right to decide.

[dembotoz]

2. the jello king actually with the morals of bill cosby