Like None Before Him: Trump on Gun Control in 2016

As haunting news flashes continue to stain the media over the last few years concerning another mass shooting report, one begs to wonder how these terrorizing incidences can be avoided. Amidst the events at Sandy Hook Elementary school, the movie theater in Denver, Colorado, and various more in malls, schools, and places of worship, the question of gun rights remains a hot debate. The perfect time for it to reach boiling point? The 2016 Presidential race.

Following the Sandy Hook shooting in Newton, Connecticut, President Barack Obama pledged efforts towards modifying gun control reforms. Since then, he has been, at times, loosely drifting from a strict adherence to modification of these regulations. When approached with the question about his Second Amendment pursuit, he merely stated that he aimed “to arrive at a consensus around violence reduction—not just of gun violence, but violence at every level, on every step, looking at everything we can do to reduce violence”. Now, after years in development and following a multitude of traumatic gun-yielding murders, this issue about the regulations for those owning and possessing these weapons will be on everyone’s election radar.

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In the Clinton vs. Trump face up, there lies some obvious benefits towards the left. A major focal point of the Clinton campaign has been highlighting stricter background checks and hard regulations surrounding the right to bear arms. According to polling from the Americans for Responsible Solutions, sixty percent of women voters want stronger gun laws. This statistic alone represents an integral piece of the upcoming Presidential race, as this group of voters has already represented a key demographic when it comes to campaigning. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton alike have undeniably faced the fact that the independent women voters can have the power to decide much of the results in November.

As a woman and mother herself, Clinton definitely wins the ability to appeal to the familial aspect that haunts every woman in America’s mind when it comes to protecting their children and families through stricter rules. Trump’s only true response strategy to this is through an attempt to appeal to the female population’s ability to defend themselves. In his inverse appeal of his own, he attempts to flip the cards bysaying, “In trying to overturn the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton is telling everyone, and every woman living in a dangerous community, that she doesn’t have the right to defend herself”.

A Post from the NRA Twitter page, endorsing Trump following an address to the group. https://twitter.com/NRA
A Post from the NRA Twitter page, endorsing Trump following an address to the group. https://twitter.com/NRA

And, in usual Trump fashion, he takes the matter far further than this claim in highlighting Obama’s release of criminals from prison, Hillary’s support of the same, and tying them to the illegal immigrants that have represented an ongoing issue in the country for years–which, if you had even stepped out of your home in the last year, you would know to also represent a whole separate campaign hot topic. Ultimately, Trump claims that the solution is more guns: ones for protection, security, and natural-born American rights. He represents a campaign style in the issue in which no candidate has previously ventured. He is offensively and unsubtly pushing against any of the regulations proposed in recent politics–even when it’s incredibly unpopular to the citizens of the country.

Like virtually every issue in this November’s election (and seemingly the last year of news coverage), the debate over gun-control and Second Amendment Rights remains incredibly salient and polarizing. It is hard to tell whether Trump’s aggressive statements and strategies relating to the issue will prove to support his candidacy. Though his ideas and arguments are admittedly harsh and seemingly insensitive due to recent events, he undoubtedly knows how to respond with an emotional appeal to these women voters and everyone in between. So, BREAKING NEWS: Trump and Hillary are extremely opposite on an issue.

One thought on “Like None Before Him: Trump on Gun Control in 2016

  1. I agree with most of what you say here, but I believe that on the background check reform both parties agree. Both parties state they want to be stricter on who they allow to carry based on history.

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