Trump echoes extreme militant group in NRA speech

[applegrove]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-nra-militant-935c1cea2077

by Kira Lerner at Think Progress

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA — President Trump echoed the language of an extreme, anti-government group during his speech to the NRA’s annual meeting on Friday, claiming that the next revolutionary war is coming if the government tries to regulate guns. He also borrowed heavily from a book about the American Revolution, using nearly identical language.

Toward the end of his remarks, Trump shared the story of Paul Revere, a symbol of the American Revolution, and his “famous warning that ‘the British are coming.’” Like Revere, NRA members need to be “vigilant” against those who “would take away our freedoms, restrict our liberties” and “abolish the Second Amendment,” Trump said.

“I know you are all up to the task, since the first generation of Americans stood strong at Concord,” he said.

That same language is often used by the Three Percenters, a self-described “American patriot movement” that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls an “extreme antigovernment group.” The Three Percenters Club, an offshoot founded by Michael Graham III, pushes an anti-government ideology and threatens a second Revolutionary War if the government tries to take away their firearms.


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[applegrove]

1. The false grievance that government is going to take away all your guns if you are a responsible

person gets used again and again. I guess anti abortion talk doesn't resonate.

[spanone]

2. sounds like he's calling for vigilantes to rise up.

he's so dangerous.

[applegrove]

3. Some men like wartalk. Or they did in the past. So the NRA gives them war talk. And a grievance.

And a way to imagine themselves fighting for a cause and belonging.

[ProudLib72]

5. No taxation without representation

A monarch pushing his agenda on us. Yeah, maybe he has a point, just not the way he thinks he does.

[madinmaryland]

6. And to think we have people here on DU that...

actually support that "organization" and everything they stand for.

FUCK THE NRA!!

[shenmue]

10. Yes

[Leghorn21]

7. First of all, dipshit said Revere rode to "Lexingtom" - I replayed twice, and that's where he

said Revere was headed.

Also, I googled long ago when our plumber mentioned the "Three Percenters" and explained what that was, and my result said "6.75" percent of colonists actively fought against the British. So embroider that on a flag, idiots.

Lastly, I really seethe with disgust when The Thing is on my teevee, so that's as far as I got.

[HoneyBadger]

8. Not challenging 6.75 %

Would love the link

Ever since seeing Hamilton, I have been into this stuff.

[Leghorn21]

11. Well, that only took forever!! - cheeze! But anyway, original link is long gone, so try

this one...percentages are off a tad, but hey. And how wonderful you got to see Hamilton, Honey!!

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-revolutionary-war-by-the-numbers-1600199390

[MedusaX]

9. What a dumbass...KGOP is in charge of all branches..

Who exactly is it ,in the Government or elsewhere, threatening to abolish the 2nd amendment????

Makes no sense to use that 'canned' speech now...