{"id":28290,"date":"2018-02-23T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28290"},"modified":"2018-02-23T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:14:55","slug":"trump-stokes-demagoguery-machine-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28290","title":{"rendered":"Trump stokes the demagoguery machine at CPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. “Demagogue in Chief” Trump has fired ’em up at the Conservative Political Action Conference.<\/p>\n

He has bellowed that if Democrats take control of Congress this year they are going to “take away your Second Amendment” rights to “keep and bear arms.”<\/p>\n

Guns are on the top of people’s minds these days. A shooter went berserk in Parkland, Fla., killing 14 students and three educators in a killing spree that has thrown the nation into grief yet again.<\/p>\n

So what does the president do? He goes to CPAC and sows terror in the hearts of the faithful. Democrats are going after the Second Amendment, he said.<\/p>\n

I do not think that’s going to happen. History is an important guide here. Think about this for just a moment.<\/p>\n

Democrats controlled the White House and Congress in 1964, a year after President Kennedy was murdered with a high-powered rifle in Dallas. Did they yank the Second Amendment away then? No.<\/p>\n

Nor did they do so after President Reagan was shot and seriously wounded in 1981.<\/p>\n

Democrats controlled Congress and the White House in 2009 and 2010. Congressional Democrats failed to reinstate the assault weapons ban.<\/p>\n

Thus, Donald Trump is blowing it out his backside when he implies a repeal of the Second Amendment if Democrats take control of Congress. However, he had an audience that gave him lusty cheers when he tossed out that fiery rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Are there ways to legislate some solutions to gun violence without taking away the Second Amendment? Yes. It just requires a concerted search for common ground to solve a quintessentially American crisis.<\/p>\n

Demagoguery doesn’t cut it.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. “Demagogue in Chief” Trump has fired ’em up at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He has bellowed that if Democrats take control of Congress this year they are going to “take away your Second Amendment” rights to “keep and bear arms.” Guns are on the top of people’s minds these days. A shooter … Continue reading Trump stokes the demagoguery machine at CPAC<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1176,1424,2037,2460,2464,7590,4017],"class_list":["post-28290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cpac","tag-donald-trump","tag-gun-violence","tag-jfk","tag-jfk-murder","tag-parkland-shooting","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28292,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28290\/revisions\/28292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}