Holes in Trump's Platform

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. 

U.S.–China Trade Reform: Trump mentions the fact that China manipulates its currency by intentionally undervaluing it. This is true. But in his super-egotistical, ethnocentric mindset he believes he can influence the global trade between China and the U.S. simply by calling China out. But Trump should know that it’s easy to get away with cheating. Here’s anarticle explaining how he stole millions of dollars from investors of one ofhis casinos that was bound to fail from the start. China isn’t going to stop devaluing its currency just because the U.S. called them out. Everyone knows that China does it. It makes international news every time China does decides to set the value of their Yuan. But China does what China wants to do. And what’s the U.S. going to do? Stop trading and outsourcing with China as Trump proposes? Good luck. Where are all our cheap Chinese products going to come from? America? Sure, it’ll create new jobs here at home, but who’s going to want to do them? Not the illegal Mexican immigrants because Trump doesn’t want them around either. The reality is (and Trump himself mentions this in his platform) that the U.S. can’t compete with China because of their squalid unregulated work conditions and underpaid workers. The cost of making anything in the U.S. is going to be greater than making it overseas, even more so if wages are increased to make the work more appealing to the “average” American. Therefore, in order for manufacturing companies to remain profitable, they will have to carry the extra cost over to the consumer. Therefore, the value of the dollar will become weaker within the U.S. economy because an overwhelming majority of products that were once created in China will become more expensive.