At the moment, one of the biggest issues and the long-standing one that Trump really needs to take up is the way gun control is supposed to be carried out. With the mass shootings at schools increasing and other host security threats that people are facing, it is very important to make sure that this long-term issue is needed to be resolved (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017). The problem is that there is a lack of clear legislation in this regard, which has caused a lack of concrete solutions for this issue (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017). With clear-cut and concrete policy-making, it can be made sure that gun control laws can be amended to ensure that a necessary level of freedom is provided to the citizens and that all the safety aspects of the arms and ammunition need to be considered.
Opting For The Background Checks
The good thing is that unlike some of the other policy issues, Gun control is one of the areas where Trump has a fair idea of what needs to be done (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017). One of the things at the top of Trump’s agenda is to make sure that background checks are being carried out at airports and other locations to ensure that gun control incidents are controlled to an extent (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017). One of the things that Trump wants at the moment is to make sure that universal checks are supported to ensure that gun sales and other issues are being resolved in the appropriate manner (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017). The problem is that the new school safety plan that he has propagated does not talk much about background checks. So, there is a greater need for consistency with regard to what he wants to get done (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017).
Propagating Ban On The Bump Stocks
One of the things that Trump must be attempting to do is to make sure that a degree of control can be developed regarding the bump stocks (Juan & Hemenway, 2017). These are the devices that are used to make legal and semi-automatic weapons that function pretty much in the same manner as Machine Guns (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017). A formal submission was carried out during the course of March to ensure that such accessories were banned. Trump’s tweet shows that he is willing to make sure that the allowance for bump stocks should not be there.
Raising The Age Limit
One of the suggestions by Trump is that how the age limit needs to be increased when it comes to purchasing semi-automatic weapons (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017). Trump has been fairly interested in the idea of how the minimum age should be raised from 18 years to 21 (Juan & Hemenway, 2017). The problem is that there are mixed signals in this regard from Trump as, again, it was not part of his school safety plan, and there is no mention of the way age restrictions are going to function (Juan & Hemenway, 2017).
Conclusion
Gun control is one of the main issues that need to be addressed by Trump. With mass shootings and a general level of discontent with regard to the arms and the ammunition that the public has at their disposal, there is a sufficient amount of evidence to suggest the fact that there is a need for considerable effort to be carried out in this regard (Lindsay-Poland & Weiss, 2017).
References
Juan, S. C., & Hemenway, D. (2017). From depression to youth school gun carrying in America: Social connectedness may help break the link. Cogent social sciences, 3(1), 1314877.
Lindsay-Poland, J., & Weiss, L. (2017). Re-Arming the Drug War in Mexico and Central America: With John Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security and the Trump administration’s close ties with the US gun industry, the militarization of the drug war deepens. NACLA Report on the Americas, 49(2), 182-185.
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