"I don't like them at all."

Read the whole interview. Some head case inserted a non sequitur into the discussion. Trump gave a lame but "defensive" answer. Joe

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. President Bone Spurs supported gun control his whole life up until he needed to oppose it in order to run for president as a Republican. Even now that he’s supposedly a friend to gun owners, he has expressed support for red flag laws by stating that they should skip due process (“take the guns first, due process second”) and he also committed a massive executive overreach that reinterpreted the legal definition of a machine gun, which set a dangerous precedent that many lawyers believe could be used to restrict other firearms besides bump stocks in the future.

More to worry about than "suppressors," for handguns in the coming years.

RETG said:

More to worry about than "suppressors," for handguns in the coming years.

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Doubt it.
Nobody is standing up any time in the next many years and saying they want to take handguns away.

Doc7 said:

Doubt it.
Nobody is standing up any time in the next many years and saying they want to take handguns away.

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That wouldnt shock me at all coming from Biden. I would be shocked if Harris, Booker, or Butitedge, Bootledge.....whatever his name is DIDNT call for banning handguns alltogether.

Yes, Trump isnt a perfect 2A supporter, but hes a sight better than anyone on the Dem. side. Pick you poison.

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That wouldnt shock me at all coming from Biden. I would be shocked if Harris, Booker, or Butitedge, Bootledge.....whatever his name is DIDNT call for banning handguns alltogether.

Yes, Trump isnt a perfect 2A supporter, but hes a sight better than anyone on the Dem. side. Pick you poison.

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I'm not so sure Mayor Pete would go after guns in a hardcore way. Maybe magazine size or a registration restriction on higher capacity magazines, but he's a former soldier and seems more in line with advancing social issues like health care than trying to change the culture of firearms. He's a gay Democrat that got elected mayor in Indiana. Not that Mayors can do much regarding state regulations on weapons, but if he wasn't a straight shooter I can tell you as a Hoosier myself he wouldn't have gotten elected. I don't see him winning the nomination. However,honestly, if he proves to keep making sensible statements I wouldn't mind seeing him run for Governor should he prove to be level headed on 2A rights. He's won me over Pence by a large margin.

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Yes, Trump isnt a perfect 2A supporter, but hes a sight better than anyone on the Dem. side. Pick you poison.

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Sure, he’s probably less publicly anti-gun than a president from the opposing party would be. But imagine if we had a president with a “D” after their name who was pushing hard for gun control: the Republicans and most gun rights supporters would be united in their effort to oppose that president’s anti-gun agenda. Instead, we have a president who says and does anti-gun things and yet the party who is supposed to be against gun control is still largely behind him. So ask yourself what’s worse: A strongly anti-gun president who is steadfastly opposed by half of our legislative branch and by every gun-rights supporter in the country, or a moderately anti-gun president whose agenda is supported by most gun-rights politicians and citizens? I don’t have an answer for that, but I’m pretty sure I don’t like either options.

Im a hoosier. South bend is east east Chicago. Mayor Pete aint straight.....and isnt a straight shooter. Former military doesnt mean friend of the 2A. More than a few higher ups have said some very anti 2A stuff. Like only ARs, semi auto or any high cap should be for military

Pence wasn't perfect but the Indy Star went on major smear campaign over RFRA. Media fanned the hype too

Total BS.

What has he said or done that was anti 2A?

Banning handguns is sooo 1970's. That used to be the focus of the gun control movement but they thought better of it when they realized they weren't gaining any traction.

Handguns statistically represent the bulk of the "gun problem" but since most criminal shootings take place in inner cities among gang members, they are invisible to average middle-class voters. School shootings using "assault weapons" are guaranteed to get a bigger political response. So that's where the gun controllers are concentrating their efforts.

Suppressors are safe for now, because, since they are in their own category under the NFA, it would take legislation to ban them. That won't happen because of the stalemate in Congress. (Trump can't do anything administratively against suppressors, as he could with bump stocks.) By the same token, deregulating them is dead as well.

I dont like AKs. Dont like them at all. Doesnt mean im anti gun. I just dont like AKs.

Trump said he doesnt like silencers. Did he say why? Did he say his personal view should be reflected in policy/legislation?

I have zero use for FA. Know folks that have them and for the most part they are a weird. bunch. Doesnt mean FA needs further restrictions or I agree w the current ones.

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Some advocate...

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wake up.. Repubs have done just as much harm to our rights than the other side of the isle.

Hookeye said:

I dont like AKs. Dont like them at all. Doesnt mean im anti gun. I just dont like AKs.

Trump said he doesnt like silencers. Did he say why? Did he say his personal view should be reflected in policy/legislation?

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Sure, but when the president — the single most powerful person in the country when it comes to passing legislation — says publicly that he doesn’t like something and that something is a controversial object that many people in the county would like to ban, it carries a little more subtext than when you and I say we don’t like something. Also, this would be less worrisome if it weren’t in the context of his other anti-2A statements and actions.

I don’t believe for a second that Trump has any personal conviction regarding gun rights. But I’m pretty sure he know what will happen if he loses that base. The opposite is true for Democrat Nominees, if they do or say anything that is anything but extremely anti gun the press will drag them through the street in chains.

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That wouldnt shock me at all coming from Biden.

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Biden says all you need is a double barrel shotgun. And you don't even need to shoot anyone, just fire off both barrels and the assailant will run away.

Trump isn't the best but he's better than most. Plus he's hilarious. I'm excited for the upcoming debates. He'll make "sleepy joe" look like a moron.

I am fearful that DJT will wake up in January of 2021 and realize that he doesn't need us anymore.

Every time a highly-publicized shooting occurs, it just illustrates how much people see in it whatever they bring to it.

In VA Beach, someone uses what seems likely to be a legally-obtained suppressor on legally obtained pistols.

Anti-gun people see this and think: This shows how dangerous suppressors are, and we should further restrict them. If they're regulated now, they must not be regulated enough.

Pro-gun people see the same facts and think: Well, this just proves that increasing background check requirements for firearms is probably a fool's errand if the goal is zero bad incidents.

We still don't know the facts. All we know is that it was "a .45 handgun with an attached suppressor and extended magazine." There are all sorts of things that could fit within those parameters -- anything from an M1911 to a MAC-10. And we don't know if the "suppressor" was real or dummy, and, if real, whether it was legal or illegal. Until these details are known, nobody can weigh in on possible legislative responses. And that's exactly what Trump should have said, rather than "I don't like them." The man has no sense of restraint.

tarosean said:

wake up.. Repubs have done just as much harm to our rights than the other side of the isle.

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That's a fact. It's coming, be prepared. Don't say you weren't warned.

If you can’t refute Buttigieg and his policy positions without mangling his name on purpose or stating the obvious that’s he’s a homosexual - like we all need to believe that’s a bad thing - well, we could use better 2A proponents.

When we all lose our gun rights it’s going to be at the hands of a majority of Republicans and Democrats working as a coalition to satisfy the mindless mob of Americans clamoring for something to be done. Vote your conscience on your issues, but don’t think for a second that your guy or gal is pro-gun just because they sport an “R” after their name - it’s probably only because it’s political advantageous...right now.

Trump is not pro-gun, or pro liberty in general. We can and should try to do better.

I do have a problem w somebody who subscribes to a certain lifestyle putting their hand on a sacred book (lifestyle in contradiction) pledging to preserve the Constitution.

Good evening fellow hot frogs...the heat is being raised just a little tiny bit more...