President Trump and VP Mike Pence spoke at the NRA convention in Dallas today, and the Michael Bloomberg-funded gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety is continuing to run with this discredited attempt to find hypocrisy among 2nd Amendment supporters:
If more guns in more places made us safer, then guns wouldn’t be banned from the NRA convention during @POTUS and @VP’s speeches. #NRAAM https://t.co/vWmMHMLCJh
— Everytown (@Everytown) May 4, 2018
FAIL. But nice try, Everytown:
I'm sorry, are you new here? It's always been the policy of the Secret Service to not allow people with firearms (other than Secret Service) around the president. https://t.co/YDRYsooAPj
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) May 4, 2018
This is beyond pathetic.https://t.co/z0HhAVmWko
— JWF (@JammieWF) May 4, 2018
Once again the blithering idiocy of the Left is manifested in a single tweet.
It is Secret Service Policy to provide armed security to all events attended by the POTUS and VP. Firearms are therefore prohibited. This is neither unusual or an exception to normal OPSEC.
Google it.— David Cole Grey (@greycole05) May 4, 2018
Troll level #fail but facts don't matter that the @SecretService requires it. https://t.co/9lYhwnUXDK
— Tony Bulls on Parade (@tonyvarriale) May 4, 2018
The Associated Press had to issue a correction after having initially taken that approach in a recent story:
AP has deleted a tweet that incorrectly said the NRA had banned guns during Trump and Pence speeches at its annual meeting. The ban was put in place by the Secret Service. A corrected tweet is coming.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 30, 2018
And if Everytown actually believes “guns make us safer” has been suspended for Trump’s speech, that might come as a surprise to the countless Secret Service agents and police in and near the venue.
There are plenty of guns at the NRA convention, they're carried by the same Secret Service that banned civilians from carrying at the convention. https://t.co/0Z6DXvtb5Y
— Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) May 4, 2018
Try learning how the secret service works. Trust me, there's plenty of guns in the room. https://t.co/uXHdhWmnge
— Whousedallthenames (@whousedallnames) May 4, 2018
But why do people like Everytown keep pushing that lie? Because people keep buying it.
@NRA are afraid of what they've wrought https://t.co/ZJ6IgSvfMt
— K (@wavegirl58) May 4, 2018
How do you spell hypocrisy? @NRA ! https://t.co/hgeOpUWjmQ
— Paula Kampf (@paulakampf) May 4, 2018
The NRA Convention is a gun-free zone. …kinda kills the argument that gun-free zones are a safety risk. https://t.co/zHHN74uuaI
— J. Thielbar (@ChuziChips) May 4, 2018
We need a new word for hypocrisy in this instance. Trumpocrisy? Is that a word?
— Sara Foley (@sarawilsonfoley) May 4, 2018
Even Trump supporters should recognize the hypocrisy of this–or they just don't care. https://t.co/cCvuJPcBkl
— Karen Clark (@SparkleConnect) May 4, 2018
Sigh.