{"id":68804,"date":"2016-11-06T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68804"},"modified":"2016-11-06T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T19:13:46","slug":"the-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68804","title":{"rendered":"The assassination attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post asks “Why isn\u2019t the assassination attempt on Donald Trump bigger news?<\/a>“, referring of course to the attempt in June by Michael Steven Sandford, a British citizen who had over-stayed his visa. He drove from California to Las Vegas just to assassinate Trump. His plan was to take a gun from a cop pulling security around the candidate. He even went to a range to practice shooting yesterday. So, the Washington Post wonders why it isn’t bigger news and they try to answer their question;<\/p>\n

From Trump’s perspective, Sandford doesn’t fit neatly into his campaign narrative. The billionaire has positioned himself as a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, so he certainly won’t use the failed assassination attempt to push for gun control. Sandford is an illegal immigrant \u2014 and Trump is all about deporting illegal aliens \u2014 but the candidate’s focus is on building a wall to keep out Mexicans and barring foreign Muslims from entering the United States. A Briton who overstayed his visa isn’t a very good poster boy for the cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t remember anything in the Second Amendment about the rights of assassins to take guns from police. I’m pretty sure that’s illegal already, so why doesn’t the Washington Post know that?<\/p>\n

There is an illegal immigrant problem along the Mexican border, if the Post hasn’t noticed. There is already a wall of water between England and the US, so a wall there wouldn’t have kept this particular illegal immigrant out. So, I don’t get their point on that either. <\/p>\n

They weren’t trying to make a point anyway, just feeding red meat to their readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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