Change In The Weather – For Now
By Mitch Berg
After a few months of listening to some of my Libertarian and “Alliance 4 Freedom” friends yakking about how the Trump administration and the GOP are the real gun control party – driven by a couple of dumb remarks by Kristi Noem, Jeannine Pirro and Trump himself – Joe Doakes points out something that I’ve written about over at HotAir.
Trump, for all his northeastern ambivalence about guns and the 2nd Amendment, has done more to reinforce the right to keep and bear arms as a right (let’s not focus on “bump stocks” for right now) than any president…
….I was about to say “of my lifetime”, but the correct ending to the sentence is “…that any president has ever needed to”.
It’s of particular interest to me – partly because of the orgy of gun grabbing that the MN Senate just passed (it’s going to die in the House, and it’s pretty much intended to rile up the Karens for mid-terms), and partly because I am a litigant against the city of Saint Paul’s peek-a-boo “assault weapons ban”.
Anyway – Trump’s prior squishiness about binary triggers notwithstanding, I never thought I’d see a Department of Justice react to a pinheaded local and state gun control bills quite like this:
It’s a great change.
Let’s hope it survives 2028.
