Trump to Nashville Crowd: ‘You Won’t Have a Second Amendment if Democrats Take Over’

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, M
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President Trump looked toward the midterm elections during his May 29 speech in Nashville, Tennessee, and warned, “You won’t have a Second Amendment if Democrats take over.”

The Tennessean quoted Trump’s appeal for support for Republican candidates in the midterms: “The other thing is, we are going to protect your Second Amendment.”

He added, “You won’t have a Second Amendment if the Democrats take over.” He paused as the crowd applauded, then reiterated, “You won’t have a Second Amendment”:

On May 10, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Trump spoke to a rally in Elkhart, Indiana, and said of himself and Republicans, “We defend the right to self-defense.”

This built on his May 4 comments at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, where he said, “We believe that our liberty is a gift from our Creator, that no government can ever take it away.”

Trump also uttered four words to gun controllers during his NRA-ILA speech: “Come and take it.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

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