Trump: If I become president, I will remove all gun restrictions
Donald Trump has promised to repeal all gun restrictions put in place by Biden if re-elected. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 election, promised that if he is re-elected as the president of the United States, all Brings back the gun restrictions put in place by Biden.
He stated that during his presidency he fully supported gun rights and if he gets to the White House again, all the laws and restrictions in this field repealed by Joe Biden.
Trump promised his supporters at a rally organized by the National Rifle Association in Pennsylvania that all laws restricting the purchase of gun accessories such as handgun holders and other laws would be enforced. canceled by the Biden government.
He noted that any attack by Biden on gun owners and manufacturers will be reversed within the first week of my return to the White House, and perhaps on the first day.
National Weapons Association, during the competitions The 2016 US election, and even the two-term Trump presidency, openly supported him. Trump also supported them by appropriating the set of laws requested by the gun lobbies, including that during the Covid-19 pandemic and the closing of many shops in order to prevent the spread of the disease, Trump allowed gun shops to He introduced the necessary and required guilds so that they can continue their activities and be open.
Trump noted that nothing happened during my presidency and during that time there was a lot of pressure on me to take action on guns. We did nothing and got no returns.
In recent years, anti-gun lobby groups have gained influence in America, but at the top of politics, due to the balance of power in the Senate and systemic restrictions. Not much has been done yet. So the Republicans are still on the side of the gun owners and the Democrats are getting nowhere with their projects. Some say, Biden could simply issue executive orders, or declare a public health emergency, and take countermeasures given the toll of gun violence. However, in both cases, this would be easy to undo and the next election is only a few months away.
National Rifle Association of America ( NRA) is one of the most powerful non-military organizations in this country that drives the interests of gun owners and those who deem it necessary.
The association may have lost some of its influence in recent years and may not be as financially powerful as it was in 2016, when it spent about $54 million on the presidential campaign. But the gun lobby and its supporters have since invested about $33 million in the 2020 presidential election. One of their main goals is to prevent stricter laws against gun owners.
In this situation, the ruling Democrats are particularly in favor of strict gun laws, in While the Republicans are against it. But the majority of American political representatives are against building a legislative wall in the US Senate against this issue. To implement such a project, a 60% majority in Congress is required, which does not exist.
Democrats are seeking to revive the assault weapons ban that expired in 2005. has been Although so far the efforts of the Democrats in this field have not been supported by the Republicans.
Not long ago, statistics published by the National Archive of Armed Violence in the United States showed that mass shootings in this country in 2023, has passed the limit of 600 cases. At that time, it was an unprecedented record.
FBI officials also stated that the past two decades have seen an overall increase in the number of mass shootings regardless of the criteria used for this assessment.
In addition, the results of the latest polls conducted by the NBC network, It shows that 52% of Americans own a gun.
Meanwhile, not long ago, a federal judge in New York announced that the ban on carrying guns with magazines that hold more than 10 bullets is illegal, and that’s why this ban canceled.
The rise of armed violence in the United States is such that every week we see bloody shootings in some part of the United States. These shootings in public places such as schools, shopping malls and churches have increased dramatically.
It is said that the high number of mass shootings in America has caused public anxiety and insecurity. And it has started many political debates. Critics accuse pro-gun Republican extremists of treacherous collaboration with gun lobbies.
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