You’ve got to let the police do their jobs, number one. Number two, you have to do a policy of stop and frisk. When you see a guy coming down the street and you can — the police know every one of them. They know their middle name. They know where they live. They know every one of them, the local police, and they’re great.

You got to let them do their job, stop and frisk, and take their gun away. You’ve got to do it. If somebody has because they have all these guns — you know, it’s very interesting, the toughest gun law, the toughest, by far, in the whole United States is in Chicago, and yet it’s the most — it’s —

Let all your Republican 2Aer friends and family know.

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      They absolutely did care. He had to walk it back. It created a lot of consternation from the alt-right and hardcore libertarian types.

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        They acted like they cared for 3 fucking seconds.

        Please, my memory isn’t that bad. I was there, “walk it back” is not how I would describe it.

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      That’s not correct. It was from 2018, after the Stoneman Douglas shooting.

      Not sure how the timing makes it any less of an obvious attack on Second Amendment rights. But I’ve seen MAGAs find weaker or more fictitious excuses to support worse positions, so I have no doubt you’ve seen them excusing this thing with that reason also.

      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-take-firearms-first/