Currently in 2017 the United States has had 11,211 deaths,
not including the 22,000 suicide deaths, and the disheartening sum of 45,023
gun regulated incidents. While the United States has a poorly regulated gun
crisis that is in serious need of managing; it is still not the top ranked
nation in gun violence. President Trump is planning to make it easier for
American gun makers to sell to foreign buyers, and while America has its own gun
violence problems as a country; we should not be responsible for putting guns
into the hands of foreigners who might in turn point the barrel right back.
Guns play a major role in America from protecting national
security and local communities to hunting and sport. They play an even bigger
role in the loss of lives. If President Trump was to allow the ease of trading
guns to foreign countries not only would the US face the possibility of the
guns being used on American citizens, but on the innocent citizens of foreign
countries. During Trumps campaign election the National Rifle Association spent
more than 30 million dollars in support of his candidacy. “I am going to come through for you,” Trump
expressed at the NRA Convention in April. In 1996 The NRA goaded Congress to
stop its 2.6 million federal funding to gun violence research. Were it Cancer
research that had stopped everyone would take notice, but it’s been 20 years of
no gun violence research and nothing has changed. Without any substantial evidence
on gun violence the steps needed to prevent its acceleration is at a
standstill. Trump preaches that immigrants living in America pose a threat to
security, but selling guns to them across seas is not a better solution and a
hypocritical one at that.
While removing guns completely is unrealistic; regulating
them so as to not infiltrate the black market is not. They result in massacres,
homicide, suicide, robbery, civil unrest, and foreign cartels enforcing their
will. No good can come from the ease of trading guns except the profit of money
and power, corruption at its finest.
