fatslob-:O said:
Lafiel said:
let's look at the quote again "By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks .. Although the 2nd amandment people, maybe there is. I don't know .."
it's pretty clear that "nothing you can do folks" is linked to the "maybe there is", so this "maybe" is not about whether or not the people should take action, it's about that this action _could_ influence the situation and stop the "effective abolishment of the 2nd amendment"
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Hmm how should I say this ...
He didn't say ANYTHING about the "second amendment people" using their guns or even hinted at it ...
All he said is "maybe there is" but he didn't clarify anything about REVERSING it or REVOKING it with a FORCE of ACTION ...
Yes there was ambiguity in Trump's statement but what he's doing is clear dog whistling when he accuses Clinton of abolishing the second amendment. His intent was clear enough to send a political message and not a message of violence when we look at the rest of the statements ...
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I have to disagree here
he says the 2nd amendment people, which is a very diverse group only connected by their love for (and usually ownership of) guns, have the possibility to influence what happens in a Hillary presidency (as I showed, the controversial sentence is linked to the one before it, therefore the context still is a Hillary presidency)
additionally the 2nd is very often touted as a way for the populace to "defend itself against a tyrannical government" and Trump certainly thinks of her that way (now - before his candidacy he spoke very differently of her) stating she was incompetent, crooked/the most corrupt candidate ever, the founder of isis and the devil
so in my opinion this can definitely be seen as a hint at violence, be that riots or otherwise, to possibly safe the 2nd amendment, which btw isn't in danger from Hillary as a plurality of democrats are very much pro-gun aswell
and as far as I know "dog whistling" in the political sense is a way to speak to a (often extremist) target-group within a crowd without alerting the normal people, like saying "the thugs are bringing down america" and meaning specifically afro-americans - as Trump outright accuses Hillary of wanting to abolish the 2nd, there is not much of a dog whistle (= a tone normal humans can't hear) there