Tom Suozzi, a Democratic congressman from Long Island who is seeking re-election this fall, implied that Americans should pick up weapons and oppose President Trump if he doesn’t follow the Constitution, reports New York Post. Suozzi made the remark during a town hall last week, saying people who oppose the president might resort to “the Second Amendment.” “It’s really a matter of putting public pressure on the president,” Suozzi said in a newly released video of the March 12 talk in Huntington, according to NY Post. “This is where the Second Amendment comes in, quite frankly, because you know, what if the president was to ignore the courts? What would you do? What would we do?” Someone in the crowd asked “What’s the Second Amendment?” to which Suozzi responds, “The Second Amendment is the right to bear arms.” Suozzi political adviser Kim Devlin denied that the politician was calling for an armed insurrection. Suozzi recently participated in the March 14 student walkout for gun control outside the U.S. Capitol and called on the young people in his district to back tightened gun laws.
I think we should engage the high school students of #NY03, and all of Long Island, to promote gun violence prevention legislation. They could help inspire the nation. What do you think?
— Tom Suozzi (@RepTomSuozzi) February 21, 2018
Trump himself has used similar language to Suozzi’s. He told a crowd at a rally in North Carolina while campaigning that if Hillary Clinton were elected and able to nominate a Supreme Court justice, there would be nothing that gun supporters could do. But then he said, “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”
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