Trump Administration and Gun Control Legislation: Summaries

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Title: Gun Control Advocates Slam Trump’s “Reckless” Decision to Loosen Firearm Exports Regulations (Common Dreams)

Author: Julia Conley

Summary: This article examines how Trump’s administration is inclined towards gun industry profits over the public safety. The cited is subsequent to the U.S. administration shifting the oversight function of countless arms exports from the American Department of Commerce to the Federal Registrar as a way of boosting ammunition and weapons sells such as AR-15s, Sniper Rifles and other semi-automatic firearms

3 Insightful Passages: Gun manufacturers have lobbied for the shift, which will lower the industry’s costs. Nonetheless, the gun control group Gifford’s Law Center denounced the new rule, which is set to take effect in March, on social media. Although proponents of the proposed changes argue that small arms are ‘less dangerous’ because many can be bought in U.S. retail outlets, the fact is that armies are built from these firearms.

Title: Trump Abandons Proposing Ideas to Curb Gun Violence After Saying He Would Following Mass Shootings (The Washington Post)

Author: Josh DawseySummary: This article examines how President Trump is still adamant on enacting legislation on gun control despite the constant efforts by White House subsequent to the August mass shootings that killed many people and left scores injured. President Trump has been ignoring the issue for months and instead choose to focus on other issues.

3 Insightful Passages: President Trump has abandoned the idea of releasing proposals to combat gun violence that his White House debated for months following mass shootings in August Four White House officials said there haven’t been substantive discussions in weeks. And a person close to the National Rifle Association said discussions between the White House and the group have gone silent in a sign that the powerful gun lobby is no longer concerned the White House will act.

Title: Trump Weighs Action on Gun Control. But It’s Still a Theoretical Discussion (The New York Times)

Author: Maggy Haberman, Sherly, G. Stolberg and Jonathan Martin.

Summary: This article delves on how President Trump is still showing no interest in proposing in addressing the gun violence menace in the nation through the enaction of gun control laws. The article points out how the President is still ill-informed of the fact that the public is behind the gun control measures lobby.

3 Insightful Passages: What President Trump has not done yet is the kind of arm-twisting of Republican senators wary of gun control legislation that will be necessary to force a bill through Congress. Moreover, the President He has shown no interest so far in a major address to ensure that public opinion is behind such a move. And he and his aides have yet to settle on what he will actually propose.

Title: Mitch McConnell suggests Trump cannot be trusted to mean what he says on guns (Think Progress)

Author: Josh Israel

Summary: This article reflects how President Trump is yet to actualize the gun control legislation despite making its public. The President is yet to take a stand on the gun control bill hence the public uncertainty about the issue

3 Insightful Passages: In the wake of another series of mass shootings, President Donald Trump has repeatedly waffled and wavered on whether to take any action to stop the epidemic of gun violence in America. McConnell made it clear he doesn’t believe Trump’s public statements mean much of anything. McConnell said he would wait and see where the president landed before committing to anything

Title: What Happened to Trump’s Promise on Gun Control? (BBC NEWS)

Author: Tara McKelvey

Summary: This source elaborates how and why President Trump is yet to establish gun control measures despite his promise after the recent mass shootings that lefts many killed, and scores injured.

3 Insightful Passages: Trump did speak about guns at the rally. Yet he did not describe efforts to end the violence. Instead he spoke about protecting the rights of gun owners and implied that Democrats were trying to take them away. The president’s aides say Trump is not planning any announcements on gun legislation in the near future

Title: It’s Going to Get A Lot Easier to Export Some Firearms from the US Due to A New Trump Administration Rule (CNBC)

Author: Amanda M. Macias

Summary: This article explains how President Trump administration streamlines firearms exporting process by easing regulation on American firearms and ammunition exports

3 Insightful Passages: In a move aimed at boosting the sale of U.S. firearms and ammunition abroad, the Trump administration has eased regulations on some commercial firearms exports. In May 2018, Trump formally proposed streamlining the process for exporting American firearms. However, this move undermines global security and wiser U.S. arms trade policy.

Title: Watch: Nancy Pelosi Gets Treated Like a Republican by the Press and She Doesn’t Like It at All (RedState)

Author: Brandon Morse

Summary: This article examines how Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House Speaker, faced hostility from the media as a Republican concerning the lack of satisfactory gun control measures by the Trump administration

3 Insightful Passages: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one such Democrat that has gotten a pretty cushy treatment by the press throughout her career.

That said, it’s good to see Democrats being asked difficult questions by the press. Still, it’s funny to see how angry a Democrat gets when its media when it asks an unapproved question.

Title: Trump Claims Virginia Democrats ‘Are Working Hard to Take Away’ 2nd Amendment Rights (CNN)

Author: Maegan Vazquez.

Summary: The article outlines how President Trump opposed Democrats advocacy for gun control measures stating that they anti-gun laws rallies are meant to undermine 2nd Amendment Rights.

3 Insightful Passages: President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that Democrats in Virginia are trying to take away 2nd Amendment rights. The Democrat Party in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia are working hard to take away your 2nd Amendment rights. This is just the beginning. Don’t let it happen, VOTE REPUBLICAN in 2020!”

References

Conley, J. (2020). Gun control advocates slam Trump’s “Reckless” decision to loosen firearm exports regulations. Common Dreams. Retrieve on 23 March 2020 from https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/23/gun-control-advocates-slam-trumps-reckless-decision-loosen-firearm-exports

Dawsey, J. (2019). Trump abandons proposing ideas to curb gun violence after saying he would following mass shootings. The Washington Post. Retrieved on 9 March 2020 from, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-quietly-abandons-proposing-ideas-to-curb-gun-violence-after-saying-he-would-following-mass —shootings/2019/10/31/8bca030c-fa6e-11e9-9534-e0dbcc9f5683_story.html

Haberman, M., Stolberg, S., & Martin, J. (2019). Trump weighs action on gun control. But it’s still a theoretical discussion. New York Times. Retrieved 9 March 2020, from http://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/politics/trump-gun-control.html.

http://thinkprogress.org/mitch-mcconnell-admits-trump-may-not-actually-support-the-gun-legislation-he-said-he-wanted-c704c035f366/.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/donald-trump-richmond-gun-rally-tweet/index.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50338937

https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/09/12/watch-nancy-pelosi-gets-treated-like-republican-press-doesnt-like

Israel, J. (2019). Mitch McConnell suggests Trump cannot be trusted to mean what he says on guns. ThinkProgress. Retrieved 9 March 2020, from

Macais, A. (2020). It’s going to get a lot easier to export some firearms from the US due to a new Trump administration rule. CNBC. Retrieved on 9 March 2020 from https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/23/gun-exports-get-easier-due-to-trump-administration rule-change.html

McKelvey, T. (2019). What happened to Trump’s promise on gun control? BBC NEWS. Retrieved on 9 March 2020 from

Morse, B. (2019). Watch: Nancy Pelosi gets treated like a Republican by the press and she doesn’t like it at all. RedState. Retrieved 9 March 2020 from,

Vazquez, M. (2019). Trump claims Virginia democrats ‘are working hard to take away’ 2nd amendment rights. CNN. Retrieved on 9 March 2020 from