Why would a person need to bring a gun to a presidential speech?
An NRA convention
Do you support open carry, EW? Do you support stronger gun rights or stronger anti-gun laws?
I support private personal protection by having a gun, but I don't support people cramming down their views on everyone else( Really it is the NRA cramming it down the throats of those who just had a family member murdered }
The laws to get a gun should be stricter especially for those with mental illness pre-excisting conditions on their records.
The Alt Right want it back to the days where a person with a pre-excisting conditions = no medical insurance...
It is all about money and nothing else Divine Wind.. Money for the NRA
Thanks for the input. I don't see it in such black & white terms, but do agree those who are criminals or mentally ill shouldn't have access to dangerous items, which can include knives, cars, etc.
The NRA can be annoying with their money drives and, IMO, theatrical politics. Still, they're the only group really supporting our Constitutional Second Amendment rights. I also blame the Democrats, specifically the anti-gun mob, for driving the NRA to an extreme. As most of us have seen over the past 35ish years, American politics has grown more partisan and more extreme. The NRA political extremism, IMO, is a direct consequence of Democrat anti-gun extremism. The NRA is simply pushing back. Bill Clinton bans "assault weapons", a fabricated legal term since there is no such thing, "high capacity magazines", etc. The NRA was crucial in fighting against that legislation and keeping it a "temporary ban". When the ban ran out, the NRA, again, was crucial to preventing President Obama from re-enacting it.
I've been a on and off again member of the NRA (mostly off) for all of my adult life. It was only when President Obama and the anti-gun mob in the Democratic Party sought to put such huge restrictions on gun-owners in 2013 that I not only signed up for the NRA again, but did so until 2021.
Most Americans polled seek "common sense" gun regulations, but what is "common sense" to most Americans and what is "common sense" to the anti-gun mob are as different as night and day.
IMO, the Democrats cannot be trusted when it comes to "common sense" gun regulations since, when they've been given an inch, will
always try to take a mile.