{"id":349054,"date":"2018-02-20T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nbc-calls-for-abolishing-second-amendment\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:51:00","slug":"nbc-calls-for-abolishing-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nbc-calls-for-abolishing-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Calls For Abolishing Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>February 19, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>This weekend\u2019s news shows were dominated by calls for stricter gun control in the wake of the latest school shooting, but none advocated more radical action than NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd, who openly called for abolishing the Second Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To support his call, Todd cited a column in the New York Times, written by Bret Stephens, a staunch leftist, and noted anti-Trump activist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t the difficulty here legislatively, the constitution,\u201d Todd suggested, adding \u201cWhich is Bret Stephens\u2019 point in\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, he\u2019s calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Todd then read from Stephens\u2019 report which argued that having the right to bear arms in the Constitution of the country is unlike any other western democracy (no mention of a Republic).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/527530\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Todd\u2019s panel were less optimistic about repealing the Second Amendment, but still expressed a desire to see it happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, getting rid of the Second Amendment it\u2019s not realistic. It\u2019s a nice intellectual exercise people might want to have, but it\u2019s not realistic,\u201d said NBC National Political Reporter Carol Lee.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Lee then charged that all Republicans are \u201cowned by the NRA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NRA spent $55 million in the 2016 elections. That\u2019s more than twice as much as they did in 2012. So you know, the idea that they\u2019re going to do something in this atmosphere \u2014 history doesn\u2019t show that that will happen.\u201d Lee added.<\/p>\n<p>Todd wasn\u2019t happy with that idea, however, complaining that \u201cI can\u2019t name a politician who has lost due to not supporting gun control, but I have known politicians who have lost for their support of gun control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson chimed in to suggest that conservatives are too \u2018afraid\u2019 to consider changes to the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is exactly what conservatives are terrified&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-nbc-calls-for-abolishing-second-amendment.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comFebruary 19, 2018 This weekend\u2019s news shows were dominated by calls for stricter gun control in the wake of the latest school shooting, but none advocated more radical action than NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd, who openly called for abolishing the Second Amendment. To support his call, Todd cited a column in the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}