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10 August 2016

Trump’s “2nd Amendment” comment is banana republic junta rhetoric

“Second Amendment solution” is a code phrase for settling political disputes with gunfire. It’s popular among the militia types, and was even employed by Nevada’s Sharron Angle, the Republican who lost to Harry Ried in the 2010 U.S. Senate election.

Now Donald Trump is using the phrase. It’s not clear whether he thinks the “Second Amendment people” should, or would, be targeting Hillary Clinton or the justices she would appoint to the Supreme Court. But it is clear that the notion of settling political differences by shooting instead of debating each other does not trouble him.

But it troubles me. And it should trouble all decent, law abiding Americans. There’s no reason for our country to settle political differences like a banana republic.