Wait. What’s that noise? It’s nothing, that’s what it is. Dead silence.
It’s the sound of the NRA reacting to Trump's promise to pry guns out of American hands.
“If they see a person possibly with a gun or they think may have a gun, they will see the person and they’ll look and they’ll take the gun away,” Trump said Thursday on Fox News, laying out his vision of how the practice works. “They’ll stop, they’ll frisk, and they’ll take the gun away and they won’t have anything to shoot with.”
That’s Donald Trump explicitly saying that he’s going to order cops to grab guns. So you’d think that, perhaps, it would elicit a bit of response from the nation’s most hyper, over-the-top organization on the topic of open and concealed carry. Let’s listen again …
Nope. Not a word.
But spokespersons for the National Rifle Association, (which has endorsed Trump for president), the National Association for Gun Rights and the Second Amendment Foundation did not answer multiple requests for comment in response to Trump’s remarks.
What would the NRA be saying if Hillary Clinton had made these comments? Well, we can look at what they're saying already.
A new ad released today by the National Rifle Association plays just like a 30-second horror movie.
An attractive woman, home alone and asleep in her second-floor bedroom, wakes with a gasp to the sound of breaking glass. As an intruder lurks in the shadows of the ground floor of the home, our protagonist bounds out of bed to grab her phone while simultaneously entering the combination on a nearby gun safe. An announcer explains what we're seeing: "She'll call 911. Average response time: 11 minutes. Too late. She keeps a firearm in this safe for protection. But Hillary Clinton could take away her right to self-defense." Like magic, the gun safe suddenly disappears. "And with Supreme Court justices," the announcer continues, "Hillary can. Don't let Hillary leave you protected with nothing but a phone."
Of course, Hillary Clinton has never threatened to take away the right to self defense.
Hillary Clinton does not want to outlaw handguns like the one seen in this ad. She is not against the use of handguns, like the one in this ad, for purposes of self-defense. Hillary Clinton's gun policy does not involve seizing handguns, like the one in this ad, from normal American citizens.
The NRA knows this. The NRA does not want you to know this. The NRA is lying to you.
On the other hand, what is Donald Trump’s announced policy? Taking away handguns. Of course, it could be that the NRA understands that what Trump means is taking away handguns from black people.
Expect the NRA commercial any day now. Just … any day.
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