While I was reading through Donald Trump’s platform I
naturally came across some issue and beliefs that I disagreed in. Some were
outright wrong and others even hypocritical coming from Trump. Here’s a couple of
his flawed points.
Second Amendment Rights: Donald Trump argues that guns are
necessary for self-defense and that gun control will inhibit this right. This
is the typical Republican argument for gun rights usually made by the NRA. But
what I don’t understand is defense against what? The other guy with a gun?
Right. Let’s allow everyone to have a gun so we can defend ourselves from each
other. It’s like fighting fire with fire. But how about we just don’t start any
fires to begin with? Trump claims that background checks will prevent criminal
from obtaining guns because they tend to steal them instead of trying to pass
the check. But this isn’t true at all. A study of mass shootings in the U.S.
(link here) shows that the majority of guns used were obtained legally. Trump
is even a proponent of people owning semi-automatic rifles, saying that the
media makes them sound scary. But the same study shows that this is the most
common gun used in mass shootings.