Trump Was Referring to Second Amendment Voters Not Assassination

By Katie Pavlich Yesterday Donald Trump did it again: He said something perceived to be outrageous terrible and completely out of line. On top of it he successfully diverted the news cycle for the foreseeable future away from Taliban sympathizer Seddique Mateen the father of the Orlando Islamic terrorist who murdered 49 at a gay Orlando nightclub in June attending a Hillary Clinton rally this week as a supporter. What did he say this time? And how could it possibly be worse than the things hes said before? If she gets to pick her judges nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people maybe there is I dont know. But Ill tell you what that will be a horrible day" Trump said at a rally in North Carolina. He followed up the statement in an interview with the following to clarify which in itself is a problem since explaining is losing (and yes hes losing is polling across the board). WNCN:I do want to ask you about a comment thats getting a lot of attention right now related to Hillary Clinton and her judge picks should she have the. Folks who are second amendment folks maybe they could take care of it. If you could explain what you meant. TRUMP: Well I think you are talking about Im not sure because I havent heard this question but I think youre talking about the power of people that are in favor of the Second Amendment and they have tremendous political power. And I think they really are strong theyre united and in fact the National Rifle Association just came out and they agreed that is absolutely the way they feel too. We have tremendous power the people like myself that believe in the Second Amendment if not abolish it. And shell do that through judges through the justices of the Supreme Court. But the Second Amendment people have tremendous power because they are so united. The majority of those paying attention to the election fueled by the mainstream anti-gun media which always falsely portrays Second Amendment supporters as cold-blooded murderers took this as a call for the assassination of Hillary Clinton. It was actually a call for Second Amendment supporters to vote come November in order to stop Clinton from placing gun control activist justices on the Supreme Court. After all Clinton has said the Supreme Court got the landmark cases Heller and McDonald wrong and supports Australian-style firearms confiscation. First lets get to the core of what Trump said albeit more clearly the second time. The NRA has entire campaigns centered around gun rights voting. They hand out bumper stickers to members that read Im the NRA and I Vote!" The NRA pours money into races on every level of government across the country and hires dozens of lobbyists to advocate for legislation its members can support and vote on. Regular emails are sent out to Second Amendment supporters in every state encouraging voters to contact their local legislators Congressman and Senators about specific measures. The 2016 NRA Annual Meetings in Louisville were almost solely focused around defeating Hillary Clinton. Because of this the left is constantly painting the NRA Second Amendment supporters and gun owners overall as a powerful lobbying group with a grip" on the legislative process on Capitol Hill. What they fail to publicly acknowledge but clearly understand well due to a number of national gun control measures failing in recent years is that all of these groups are made up of millions of people who vote in elections.  These Second Amendment people" vote in droves and despite what the Clinton campaign her supporters and allies in the media immediately conclude they dont assassinate people. Many think Trump tried to tell a bad joke. Fair enough lets say he did. Many Trump critics have said from the beginning that hes a fraud hijacking the Republican Party. If he were joking (I dont think he was but instead incorrectly aligned his usual run-on sentence) hes still a New York liberal trying to fit into a conservative Republican skin. As Reasons Ed Krayewski noted on Twitter who refers to Second Amendment advocates and supporters as Second Amendment people"? The answer is someone who a) previously supported a ban on semi-automatic rifles b) supported and applauded President Obamas calls for more gun control after Newtown c) someone who doesnt know Second Amendment advocates hardly at all which is proven by his assumption they would be interested in assassinating someone for political reasons. Second Amendment supporters are the most peaceful people living in America and the statistics continually prove it. The biggest problem here is Trumps own doing thanks to the many egregiously inappropriate flat out wrong things hes said and indignantly stood by in the past: praising dictators saying he can shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue" and his supporters wont think twice about revoking their support that protestors should be carried out on stretchers" etc. Hes lost all credibility and has made it impossible for those against him to give even the slightest benefit of doubt. In January I signed on to National Reviews special Against Trump" issue and have been critical of the candidate ever since. I stand by every word I wrote and to many on the right Im a Clinton shill an anti-American bimbo traitor and yes someone who should be sent to the gas chamber because of it. Most recently I went after Trump for attacking the Khan family whose son U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan gave his life in Iraq while trying to save his fellow soldiers. Im on record in multiple venues as staunchly anti-Trump and anti-Clinton. This isnt a defense of Trump but one of Second Amendment supporters who are constantly maligned and smeared in the media as crazy gun-nut murderers. They arent. There are many things to criticize Trump over and believe me I have but this isnt one of them.