My thoughts on President Trump’s handling on gun
violence
By Charlie Cohen
These are my thoughts on President Trump’s
actions (lack of action) on recent gun violence. Since president Trump has
taken office, it seems like nothing good has happened, and everything has gone
downhill. This is just my opinion, but maybe it is your opinion too. Since he’s
been in office, it feels like gun violence has been a bigger issue than
presidents before him.
I think the problem all has to do with the
relationship Trump has with the NRA. The national rifle association is a
pro-gun association that wants people to have guns, even assault rifles, and
only talks about the second amendment. They say that people can and should own
guns as protection. The only problem is that now they are used for attacking
and people use them to attack people out of hate. The NRA never listens to any
people who want to limit guns or make tighter laws, and have made rude comments
about mass shootings. When the NRA makes comments about the shootings, Trump
doesn’t stand up and say something impactful. Trump hasn’t proposed any laws
banning types of guns (like assault rifles) or come up with any tighter gun
laws. It almost seems like the NRA is bribing him, or that he really doesn’t
care about the safety of our citizens. The NRA has been trying to brainwash
Trump to not do anything, and it’s been in their favor. It’s corruption.
After the parkland shooting last year, Trump
said that the FBI could have stopped it if they weren’t focusing on Russian
collusion. This comment lead to controversy, and made it seem like he didn’t
care about the victims at all. Some students tweeted back and forth with him
about his non-healing comments. Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez once explained
on TV that thoughts and condolences aren’t enough, as change is needed. Well,
only thirteen states so far have passed red flag laws.This law allows police or
family members to ask that guns get taken away from people who may be dangerous
or threatening. We have had so many shootings lately: Pittsburgh, Santa
Fe, most recently California, and he honestly doesn’t do or say anything
helpful. He didn’t cancel rallies after Pittsburgh and when he did go there to
give “thoughts and condolences,” they protested him. He has not done enough. He
hasn’t done anything.
Sometime soon, Trump needs to make a change and
propose some sort of law to change this violence. His position as president is
to protect our country, and try and do the best he can to have better laws to
make America a safer place. Even Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey was trying to
get better gun laws, but his ideas were shot down. It’s awful, and it feels
like no one can do anything if even the President doesn’t do anything.
Again, change is needed.
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