Why I expect Trump to go soft on Second Amendment now that he's been targeted for assassination

All the signs point to Trump becoming the next James Brady, a Republican who converted to the dark side on gun control

The Republican National Committee has removed almost every reference to the right to keep and bear arms from the 2024 party platform, a signal that those at the top of the ticket will be positioned to compromise on the issue.

Trump has in the past already supported one of the most pernicious anti-Second Amendment policies – so-called red-flag laws – which allow authorities to confiscate a citizen’s firearms without any crime having been committed or any solid evidence that a crime has been planned. All that is needed is an accusation by someone, anyone, that you as a gun owner could be a threat to yourself or someone else.

Here’s the exact quote from Trump, made in 2018, where he advocated seizing firearms from Americans without any proof that they’re about to commit a crime, then going to court later to figure out if it was justified:

“Take the firearms first and then go to court, because that’s another system. Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go …