Ease of Foreign Gun Regulations

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.

www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-weapons-exclusive/exclusive-trump-administration-prepares-to-ease-export-rules-for-u-s-guns-idUSKCN1BU2N8