President Trump[1] is very big on preserving constitutional rights.
For example, America has suffered four of the worst mass shootings in its entire history during Mr Trump’s 18-month tenure in the White House.
Yet his consistent response to calls for more gun control laws has been to do absolutely nothing.
No guns can possibly be banned, he says – or rather, his paymasters at the NRA tell him to say - because that would be an outrageous infringement of people’s 2nd Amendment rights.
Precedent: Colin Kaepernick first knelt during the national anthem in 2016 to draw attention to the violence committed by police against black people in the United States
Apparently, these 2A rights are deemed so untouchable they override the basic human rights of young children not to be shot to pieces at school.
Compare and contrast with the same President Trump’s response to NFL players exercising their 1st Amendment rights to free speech by kneeling during the National Anthem.
Their 1A rights aren’t deemed sacred at all.
In fact, according to Mr Trump and now their employers, they don’t exist.
The NFL, bowing to relentless pressure from the President, has announced that kneeling during the anthem is hereby banned for the new season.
Any players who wish to ignore this ban will be forced to stay in the locker room and kneel there.
If they kneel on the field, they will be fined.
I was already planning to write an angry column criticising this absurd decision, and hammering the NFL for ironically taking the knee to the President in such a cowardly, simpering fashion.
But then Mr. Trump, as is his unfortunate tendency, decided to up the ante a hundred
