Gun crime prevention protesters are furious after President Donald Trump shuttered a former president’s business to support common sense gun changes on the federal, state, and local levels.
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Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL ), himself a victim of gun violence, railed against Trump’s decision earlier this month.
In an interview with a regional television station in Florida, he said,” It’s absolutely awful that the leader gets rid of an company that actually saves American lives.” ” We’re going to struggle to get it back”.
Frost claimed that some Democratic lawmakers have criticized Trump’s decision to close the White House company behind closed doors and that Biden’s company helped reduce shooting incidents in places like Orlando.
The Office of Gun Violence Prevention’s foolish decision by Donald Trump is a deception of the British people. This business was saving lives, no playing politicians”, Frost’s company said in a statement. We need leaders on both sides of the hallway to give our populations a chance. The battle for common-sense weapons reform is far from over”.
A Tennessee girl killed herself at Antioch High School in Nashville on Wednesday, prompting more scrutiny of Trump’s selection. Nashville was also rocked two years prior when a gunman killed three university people and three students before being killed by police. In his last weeks in office, Biden presented the world’s highest honor to the responding police officials.
Kris Brown, chairman of gun violence reduction group Brady, claimed in a speech that Trump’s determination to screen OGVP shows he’s “putting the objectives of the gun lobby above our children, our communities, and our state”.
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention stated that the goal of the campaign was to strengthen the capacity of the government to defend American from gunshots ( more than 300 of whom are shot each day ). By shuttering it, Trump is putting the interests of the gun lobby above our children, our communities, and our nation. Trump is say he did ‘ make America , healthy once,’ but these words are empty without action on guns. Trump’s choice today— coupled with the release of gun-wielding home terrorists , up on our streets— may make all of us less safe”, Brown said.
Giffords, the gun safety organization stood up by former Rep. Gabby Giffords following a 2012 , mass shooting that left her gravely injured, similarly accused Trump of bowing to the gun lobby.
The organization wrote on X that” Donald Trump promised to CEOs of gun companies that he would weaken gun laws.” ” Closing the Office of GVP would mean more innocent Americans would lose their lives and more firearms would go into the wrong hands.”
In an effort to expand the Safer Communities Act, a bipartisan gun safety bill, which the former president signed into law halfway through his term, Biden poured hundreds of millions into the White House gun office. The office collaborated with local and state governments to strengthen background checks, introduce new” commonsense” regulations, and stop the proliferation of so-called ghost guns, privately produced weapons without federal serial numbers.
The National Rifle Association, however, was vocal in supporting Trump and reversing the gun laws from the Biden era. In a statement, the organization praised Trump’s decision, claiming the office would “infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of peaceable Americans”.
” With]Trump ] taking office, there will be a dramatic shift in Second Amendment policy”, the NRA wrote on X. Donald Trump has promised to take actions that will affirmatively advance and advance the right to keep and bear arms, while Joe Biden pushed an extreme anti-gun agenda.
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Gun safety advocates predicted that Trump would immediately attack Biden’s policies on violence and OGVP in particular, but Everytown for Gun Safety president John Feinblatt claimed the movement is in “better shape” than it did when Trump first took office in 2017.
” We’ve been at this road before”, he said in a January interview. Democrats are now completely committed to the issue of gun safety. Our grassroots army, which is almost three times the size of the NRA, has significantly grown in the last eight years.
