{"id":354535,"date":"2018-03-30T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T09:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-agrees-repealing-second-amendment-would-be-tyranny\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T09:37:02","slug":"trump-agrees-repealing-second-amendment-would-be-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-agrees-repealing-second-amendment-would-be-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Agrees Repealing Second Amendment Would Be \u2018Tyranny\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYour Second Amendment will always be your Second Amendment. We\u2019re not doing anything to that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>March 30, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>During a speech in Ohio on Thursday, President Trump vowed to protect the Second Amendment, saying that the attacks on it are unjustified and that talk of repealing the amendment could lead to \u2018tyranny\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to protect our Second Amendment,\u201d Trump told supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw the other day where a very important and respected\u2014in some circles\u2014Democrat said we should get rid of our Second Amendment \u2026 That\u2019s really\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyranny!\u201d an audience member shouted out.<\/p>\n<p>Trump smiled and pointed at the person then said he \u201ccould be right about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JzSb9UxsVT0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump was referring to comments made by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/27\/politics\/john-paul-stevens-second-amendment\/index.html\">repealing the Second Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to protect our Second Amendment. That\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cWe have the best judges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump lauded over how many federal judges he has appointed, claiming \u201cwe are setting records.\u201d He then referenced Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch by name, calling him \u201cfantastic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gorsuch, a proponent of\u00a0<a title=\"Originalism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Originalism\">originalism<\/a>\u00a0in interpreting the\u00a0Constitution, was nominated by Trump last year to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j5kSvM1OHMI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Second Amendment will always be your Second Amendment,\u201d Trump declared, vowing that \u201cWe\u2019re not doing anything to that. Not doing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments echo a tweet he sent out Wednesday vowing that the Second Amendment would \u201cnever be repealed!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as Democrats would like to see this happen, and despite the words yesterday of former Supreme Court Justice Stevens, NO WAY. We need more Republicans in 2018 and must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED! As much as Democrats would like to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-trump-agrees-repealing-second-amendment-would-be-tyranny.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYour Second Amendment will always be your Second Amendment. We\u2019re not doing anything to that.\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMarch 30, 2018 During a speech in Ohio on Thursday, President Trump vowed to protect the Second Amendment, saying that the attacks on it are unjustified and that talk of repealing the amendment could lead to \u2018tyranny\u2019. \u201cWe [&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-354535","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\/354535","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=354535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}