Don't Even Think About It

Later that month, Manchin went on “Morning Joe” — the one show on MSNBC that Trump has been known to watch — to discuss, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Newtown school massacre, the need to expand background checks on gun purchases. Within an hour after Manchin was offscreen, his cellphone rang. It was Trump. Manchin was not completely forthcoming about the conversation, but he did tell me that he envisioned “a complete opportunity” for new gun-safety legislation. Unlike with Obama, he said, “no one thinks President Trump would do anything that would take away your gun rights.” [More]

Some of us think he'd try, particularly if it were Fairfax-approved.

After Sandy Hook, a coalition of those primarily concerned with industry image advocated a preemptive surrender gesture under the false mantra that "we have to give them something!" and were testing the waters for consensus. I've alluded on occasion to some closed communications I was privy to at the time where a few of us did what we could to warn those hinting at the coward's way out that we would not stand for it.

Consider this a follow-up warning.

[Via Keith B]