There has never been a time in the last century when it was more important than now since 9-11 and ISIS and Al Qaeda for Americans to own firearms. If you notice what ISIS does it always attacks in areas where people are the least armed like in Paris or Brussels or places like this where the common people aren't allowed to own or carry weapons. So, they are slaughtered like cattle in a fenced yard every time. So, if at least one or more people aren't armed during terrorist actions like they often are in Israel thousands more will be slaughtered like cattle on into the future by ISIS and others ongoing. So, at least in Israel and the U.S. people are allowed to shoot back to defend themselves depending upon where this happens in the U.S. on into the far future.
Donald Trump goes after Hillary Clinton on guns
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Louisville,
Kentucky (CNN) Donald Trump on Friday told the National Rifle
Association that Hillary Clinton would take away the right to bear arms
-- a position the Democratic front-runner has never taken.
Donald Trump goes after Hillary Clinton on guns
Story highlights
- Trump dove right into attacking Hillary Clinton
- He said the Democratic presidential front-runner wants to 'abolish' the 2nd Amendment
Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)Donald
Trump on Friday told the National Rifle Association that Hillary
Clinton would take away the right to bear arms -- a position the
Democratic front-runner has never taken.
Moments
after the gun group endorsed Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee dove
right into attacking Clinton, saying she "wants to abolish the Second
Amendment."
"We're not going to let that happen," Trump said. "We're going to preserve it, we're going to cherish it."
Clinton
has called for universal background checks and stricter controls on
firearms, but has never called for the abolition of the 2nd Amendment.
In fact, on her website, she calls gun ownership "part of the fabric of many law-abiding communities."
Trump's claim reiterated a statement he made earlier in the month, though on Friday, he suggested that Clinton would take away gun rights via the Supreme Court.
"If
she gets to appoint her judges, she will abolish the Second Amendment,"
Trump told an enthusiastic crowd. "In my opinion, that's what she's
going to go for."
She quickly responded to Trump's speech on Twitter.
"You're wrong, @realDonaldTrump. We can uphold Second Amendment rights while preventing senseless gun violence," she tweeted.
Trump hammered home his
argument that gun rights are critical to fighting terrorism -- raising
the specter of recent terrorist attacks -- but spent most of his speech
sharpening his attacks on Clinton.
He
even referenced Clinton's advantage with women voters, arguing that
Clinton is telling "every woman that she doesn't have the right to
defend herself" with a firearm.
"That is so unfair and that is so egregious and I'll tell you what, my poll numbers with women are starting to go up," he said.
Trump
also accused Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of
being hypocritical for having armed Secret Service agents around them
while calling for stricter gun control measures, and called on the
Clintons to "let their bodyguards immediately disarm."
Trump
on Friday was addressing thousands of NRA members gathered here after
the group's CEO, Wayne LaPierre, and the group's chief lobbyist, Chris
Cox, energized the crowd by bashing Clinton and urging Republicans to
"get over" their sore feelings about the primary process and unite
around the presumptive Republican nominee.
LaPierre
and Cox both argued that the "Second Amendment is on the ballot in
November," a position that Trump also took in his speech.
While
Trump presented himself as a fierce defender of the Second Amendment on
Friday, the New York billionaire has not always been such a staunch
advocate of the right to bear arms.
In
his 2000 book, "The America We Deserve," Trump wrote that he supported a
ban on assault weapons and argued in favor of a longer waiting period
to purchase a gun -- both positions the NRA ardently opposes.
Supreme Court at stake, Trump says
Trump, who days earlier released a list of his potential Supreme Court nominees, called on Clinton to do the same, saying the Democrat's list would be "night and day" from his.
The
real estate magnate called the next president's ability to appoint at
least one Supreme Court justice "one of the biggest and most important
reasons to win this time."
Trump's surrogates at the NRA meeting made the same case in interviews with CNN.
Sen.
Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican who heads up Trump's group of
national security advisers, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who ran
against Trump in the GOP primary, argued that the appointment of a
liberal justice to the Supreme Court could endanger gun rights in
America.
"The Second Amendment is
something that's in jeopardy in this election cycle," Perry said. "I
tell people, I say listen, you can argue this thing, you can have a
discussion about how many angels can dance at the head of a pin, but at
end of the day, you really better keep this simple: Hillary Clinton,
Donald Trump, Supreme Court appointment ... If you're a Second Amendment
person or anyone who loves the Constitution, Donald Trump's your man."
Sessions
suggested that Trump's claim that Clinton wants to abolish the Second
Amendment was more than just hyperbole, saying "in essence" Clinton
would accomplish that by appointing a justice who would reverse the
Heller decision.
In a statement
shortly after the group announced its endorsement of Trump, Cox said
"the stakes in this year's presidential election could not be higher for
gun owners."
"If Hillary Clinton
gets the opportunity to replace Antonin Scalia with an anti-gun Supreme
Court justice, we will lose the individual right to keep a gun in the
home for self-defense," Cox said. "Mrs. Clinton has said that the
Supreme Court got it wrong on the Second Amendment. So the choice for
gun owners in this election is clear. And that choice is Donald Trump."
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