{"id":106546,"date":"2019-02-28T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=106546"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:45:06","slug":"leftist-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/leftist-disarmament\/","title":{"rendered":"Their Own Worst Enemy: Leftist Disarmament Agenda Concentrates Guns in Hands of ‘Tyrannical’ Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Photo: Gage Skidmore\/WIkimedia Commons<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s national emergency declaration last week prompted the most predictable deluge of editorials since Parkland, all with the same basic message: The President is one executive order away from Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s national emergency declaration once again highlights his affinity for strongmen \u2014 and authoritarianism\u201d declared<\/a> the Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s Eugene Scott. The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s Elizabeth Goitein believes<\/a> the President is \u201ceager\u201d to push the United States towards \u201cauthoritarianism,\u201d and the New York Times<\/em>\u2019s editorial board claims<\/a> Trump\u2019s \u201cexecutive overreach\u201d will \u201cdamage American democracy\u201d for decades to come.<\/p>\n

This is nothing new for the mainstream media. They\u2019ve been accusing the President of authoritarianism almost since his first day in office. But the media and leftist politicians have also pushed an anti-gun agenda radically inconsistent with their belief in Trump as dictator-in-chief.<\/p>\n

Take Eugene Scott, for example. Four months prior to calling the President an authoritarian, he penned another op-ed<\/a> highlighting the \u201cbroad\u201d support for stricter federal gun control laws. Among the specific policies he mentions (and tacitly supports), he includes a proposal that would bar anyone on a federal watch list from purchasing a firearm.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBowers [the murderer in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre], who had 21 guns registered under his name, was not on any federal watch list,\u201d Scott notes. \u201cMost Americans would have supported him not being able to buy guns had he been.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott might be unfamiliar with how federal watch lists work, but most are controlled by, well, federal agencies<\/a>. These agencies are controlled by the executive branch, whose head is\u2014drum roll please<\/em>\u2014Donald \u201cBenito Mussolini\u201d Trump.<\/p>\n

Scott, in other words, wants to grant a future dictator the near-unilateral power to disarm the American people.<\/p>\n

What?<\/em><\/p>\n

A Common Refrain<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Scott isn\u2019t alone. Anti-gun leftists writ large hold the same contradictory positions, but it\u2019s amazing how many individual writers, editors, and politicians have called Trump a dictator one month and called for disarmament the next. Here\u2019s a run-down of just a few:<\/p>\n