Trump: Make Sure You Vote Or Dems Will Take Away Your Second Amendment

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/24: President Donald Trump speaking at the American Conservative Union's 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/24: President Donald Trump speaking at the American Conservative Union's 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Lig... NATIONAL HARBOR, MD, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/24: President Donald Trump speaking at the American Conservative Union's 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Friday reminded the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference to get “off their ass” and vote in the midterms so that Democrats don’t “take away your Second Amendment.”

“Don’t be complacent,” he said. “If they get in, they will repeal your tax cuts, they will put judges in that you wouldn’t believe. They’ll take away your Second Amendment, which we will never allow to happen. They’ll take away your Second Amendment. Remember that. They will take away those massive tax cuts, and they will take away your Second Amendment.”

He then asked the crowd whether they’d rather have their “massive” tax cuts or their Second Amendment rights. The crowd’s reaction was clearly in favor of guns.

“Second Amendment, tax cuts? Second Amendment? I’m going to leave it at the Second Amendment,” he said. “I don’t want to get into that battle.”

The comments about gun rights come as Trump has indicated his support for at least three proposals that would tighten gun laws, in the wake of the most recent school shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead.

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  1. Avatar for tao tao says:

    What do you want to give up? Tax cuts or school massacres? Just kidding. You can have both.

  2. Make sure you vote or the gun wackos will end up killing you.

  3. Avatar for ggus ggus says:

    And that’s a problem because…

    1. it will upset the NRA
    2. it will slow our financial hell hole
    3. it will enrage racist and Putin

    Yeah, all good reason to vote D.

  4. Avatar for dont dont says:

    The Ds will take away the right to have a “well regulated militia”?

  5. @thunderclapnewman posted this yesterday. I think I remembered the statistics correctly.

    Only 35% of US households have a gun.

    Only 3% of the US population owns 50% of the guns.

    There are over 300 million guns in America,

    So at best only 1/3 of the country owns guns, and only 3% are the true ammosexuals.

    Not good odds at the ballot box, Donnie…

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