The Trump Assassination Attempt: Will it Change His Stance on Gun Control?
Cairo, Egypt
For as long as the present author can remember, gun violence has been a way of life in America. Bush couldn’t stop it; Clinton couldn’t stop; Bush II couldn’t stop it; Obama couldn’t stop it; Trump couldn’t stop it, and neither has Biden been able to.
People living in the United States have come to accept mass-shootings as a way of life. Many expats cite them as one of the prime reasons that they left America in the dust. The following is but one example: an American woman living in Brooklyn with her family had a successful career. One day, her child’s school had a shooting drill. For her, that was the last straw. Her family has since moved to Germany.
Those readers who are NRA members know that phone solicitations are very common. During the last election, they advocated for President Trump. According to Yahoo News, the NRA donated $30 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Despite this, in 2019 he said,
“They have less power over me.”
After the school shooting at Uvalde, Texas in 2022, former President Trump spoke at a NRA Rally in Dallas. The Texas Tribune reported that he said the following,
“Sadly, before the sun had even set on the horrible day of tragedy, we witnessed a now familiar parade of cynical politicians seeking to exploit the tears of sobbing families to increase their own power and take away our constitutional rights.”
Former President Roosevelt made pro-imperialist statements for much of his life. After his son was killed in the Lafayette Escadrille, he stopped. Was getting clipped enough to change Trump’s views on gun control? Maybe, but probably not. Unless Trump’s immediate family fall victims to gun violence, he will do nothing to restrict access to firearms.
