John Lott Has Dim View On Democratic Efforts

By Tom Knighton

One of the big concerns regarding President Trump’s efforts to build the border wall via a national emergency proclamation stems from concerns that Democrats, when they’re in power, would do the same thing with regard to guns. It’s not an idle concern either. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has said as much in her efforts to dissuade Republicans from backing Trump’s play.

Economist John Lott seems to believe that Democrats really would try such a thing.

Gun rights advocate John Lott Jr. said in an interview that aired Monday on Hill.TV’s “Rising” that a Democratic president would possibly declare a national emergency on gun violence in order to confiscate firearms.

“I’d see that [as] quite possible,” Lott Jr., the author of “The War on Guns,” told host Buck Sexton last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

“You’ve seen California, New York, Chicago and other places in the United States that have already used registration lists that they’ve had to identify people that owned guns to force them to have to turn them in, and get rid of them,” he continued.

“It wouldn’t be a stretch at all to see something like that happening nationally,” he said.

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Source:: Bearing Arms