On March 26, the New York Times Magazine described Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) as “the Senate Democrat who… seems closest to [President] Trump” and who believes he may actually secure gun control under the Trump administration.
This news comes as Trump, the NRA, and others are pressing red state Democrats to confirm Neil Gorsuch to fill the void left by Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
According to the NYT Mag, Manchin appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on December 14, 2016, the 4th anniversary of the heinous attack in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza stole guns, killed his mother, then went to Sandy Hook Elementary and killed 26 more innocents. While on air, Manchin again voiced support for his pet gun control item — an expansion of background checks in response to the Sandy Hook attack.
Within an hour after his segment ended, Manchin received a phone call from Donald Trump. And while he did not divulge details of the call, he told NYT Mag reporter Robert Draper that he believes he has “a complete opportunity” to secure gun control under Trump.
Draper said Manchin believes his gun control has a chance it never had under Barack Obama because “no one thinks President Trump would do anything that would take away your gun rights.” The problem with this claim is that Manchin’s gun control — universal background checks- – cripples gun rights by coupling private sales with retail sales and forcing Americans to seek out an agent of the state for permission to conduct either kind of sale. Moreover, history — even recent history — has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that universal background checks are insidious; they lead to more and more gun control and especially to a gun registry.
In fact, universal background checks cannot work without a gun registry. Think about it — how can the government be sure no guns are changing hands privately unless they know where every gun is and the name of everyone who owns it? This is exactly why the implementation of universal background checks in California has been followed by gun registration requirements. Moreover, it is why more and more gun controls that involve paperwork continue to be passed in that state; the hope is to discover guns that have not made it onto the state database of gun owners yet.
The newly passed background checks for ammunition purchases is one way California is broadening the paper trail. Someone who may have a gun they got from their grandfather — a gun that has no paper trail at all — can eventually be found when he goes to buy ammunition and has to go through the background check system Californians go through for every gun sale. It is a constricting circle, and it is the very circle Manchin has been pushing for all Americans since January 2013.
One more problem with Manchin’s universal background checks — they have nothing to do with the attack on Sandy Hook. As noted above, the Sandy Hook attacker stole his guns. In fact, even Manchin admitted his universal background checks would not have stopped the attack had they been in place. Manchin made this admission during the April 14, 2013, airing CBS News’s Face the Nation.
Manchin is a Democrat from a pro-gun, red state that President Trump won handily. He is pushing gun control, and West Virginians need to remember he is up for re-election in 2018.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
http://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2017/03/27/joe-manchin-opportunity-gun-control-under-trump/
“no one thinks President Trump would do anything that would take away your gun rights.” Not no one, no trumpettes. They’ll follow him off a cliff. These are the people who will justify anything their savior says. Even if just mere months ago, they rejected the same things under someone else. Supposedly because they were such staunch patriots.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury…
This is what happened.
This bee landed on Donald Trumps face and so I flicked a lit match at it to scare it away.
Now I don’t know what brand of Cambodian Napalm Trump was using to keep the hair on his wig in place, but that sh!t went up like f–king Chernobyl.
So Trumps screaming like a little girl with his head on fire, one of the secret service guys tried to run over to help but he tripped on a Colombian hooker and fell face first into a gigantic pile of coke.
Realizing that no help was forthcoming, I quickly used my critical thinking skills, grabbed a fireman’s ax and used it to put the fire out.
And that’s what happened.
So help me, God.
LMFAO
Halarious
Shhhhhhhhhh. Between you me and GOD?
That part about the bee?
I totally made that up.
“The newly passed background checks for ammunition purchases is one way California is broadening the paper trail.”
INSANITY!!!
They started requiring a thumbprint FOR AMMO the year before I left that commie hellhole!
“… he believes he has “a complete opportunity” to secure gun control under Trump.”
And we believe you’ll have “a complete opportunity” to HANG for your treason (under Chump… or anyone else). scumbag POS!
and their about to turn Florida into the same commie shithole as California!
About to?
Thought they already had.
Oregon has MORE than it’s ‘fair share’ of scumbag commies as well.
Joe Manchin, just discovered Trump is a pussy.
Gun control in the US is possible ONLY if too many Americans pussy out and cooperate with that tyranny. If more than just a couple percent of Americans refuse, deciding that honorable death is preferable to living on their knees and dooming their offspring to slavery, then our guns are here to stay.
Nevertheless, the time will likely come when we will need more than just guns to fight the jackboots. Guns will always remain indispensable, but more potent weapons will need to be developed by those defending freedom. Some are already well on their way with this.
They’ve been boiling the frog for awhile now, and they’re salivating at the next level of what they think they can achieve of course….
yet, as we witness what they had to do by putting the Trumpraeli in office, I generally believe, it was to head off an uprising, as others here and elsewhere have voiced…
So, yeah, they think they can move to next level stuff, like a staged assault on The new Conservative god Trump, where he’ll be “Forced” to declare martial law to quell the Left wing assault on the nation, and people like Alex Jewnes will definitely support HIS martial law….
It will be the Only way they can even hope to control what is coming to them……There will be no Gun Confiscation attempts, without Martial Law and military on the streets….
But we ain’t Wide eyed Sign waivers…..DTTNWO
News to anyone?
WHAT???????????????????????? YALL PUSSIES???????????????????????????