Dr. John Lott’s new piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way:
This was Trump’s apparently offensive quote: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”
Suppose the phrase Second Amendment people had been replaced with any other special-interest group. Would there be any claims that Trump was threatening assassinations?
In a Newsweek interview on Monday, Hillary Clinton excoriated the lobbying power of these very same Second Amendment people. “We need to elect leaders with the courage to stand up to the gun lobby,” she declared. It is a remark that she has made time and again. But presumably Clinton isn’t suggesting that standing up to the gun lobby takes a special kind of courage because this lobby has a particular capacity for violence?
Based on her stand, shouldn’t Clinton’s response be that Trump is encouraging Second Amendment people to lobby to block her appointments? Why would anyone claim that he is encouraging her assassination? . . . .
The rest of the piece is available here.
The assumption of the media and liberal commentators is that every other group but “Second Amendment people” will lobby and engage in the political process, but somehow “Second Amendment people” are the only ones that threaten others?
The Orange County Register (Orange County, California) piece appeared in the Sunday, August 14th paper and is available here.
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review piece is available here.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) piece is available here.
The Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) piece is available here.
The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California) piece is available here.
The Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona) piece is available here.
The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Arizona) piece is available here.
The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) piece is available here.
The Missoulian (Missoula, Montana) piece is available here.
The Ledger (Pittsford, NY) piece is available here.
The Providence Journal (Providence, Rhode Island) piece is available here.
Click on the scanned copy of the op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer article to enlarge it.
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