DBTrek wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:39 pm
Obama didn’t say he would come our after every mass shooting and apply pressure to curtail our 2nd Amendment rights?
I think he did.
And I think no First Amendment rights were curtailed by his callously calculated acts.
/shrug
I don't have any idea what you're talking about here. Using his stump to advocate towards reasonable gun legislation in a general sense may be something you disagree with but it is
policy. It is not putting extreme, repeated pressure on specific individuals for what they have said. Not only that, Trump has put extreme pressure on the only employer these guys have or COULD have to do what they are doing to directly punish them for their protests.
Obama after a mass shooting:
""Our thoughts and prayers are not enough,” he said. “It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America -- next week, or a couple of months from now.”
"Of course, what’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together," Obama said.
"When roads are unsafe, we fix them to reduce auto fatalities. We have seatbelt laws because we know it saves lives. So the notion that gun violence is somehow different, that our freedom and our Constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon, when there are law-abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt and protect their families and do everything they do under such regulations doesn’t make sense," he added."
