Donald Trump and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Saturday encouraged gun owners gathered at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual convention in Dallas, Texas. to vote for Trump in the 2024 presidential election as a way to guarantee their Second Amendment rights.
The National Rifle Association is formally endorsing former President Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.an endorsement that was officially announced Saturday at the group’s annual convention in Dallas.
Former President Donald Trump stated in his opening speech at the NRA meeting that the right to bear firearms is in danger, He asked his followers to go to the polls in November to protect him and he presented himself as the only candidate capable of preserving it.
“The survival of our Second Amendment is undoubtedly at stake in the election. They want to destroy our country. The Second Amendment is under siege, but they won’t get it with me. We need that Second Amendment, for our safety, for hunting, and for all those things. Because the bad guys are not going to give up their weapons,” he said.
Trump used the speech to enthuse some of his most loyal supporters, asking them not to stay home and to go to the polls in November.
During his speech, Trump harshly attacked Democratic President Joe Bidenwith whom he will meet again in November, as well as against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent candidate who could take away votes from both.
Trump spent periods of his time talking about gun rights and the fact that, if elected, he would repeal the Biden administration’s executive orders designed to reduce gun violence.
Trump dedicated much of his roughly two-hour speech to focus on immigration, crime rates and baseless conspiracy theories about the theft of the 2020 election.
The arms lobby has praised many of the measures that Trump promoted during his Presidency, such as the appointment of three conservative judges to the Supreme Court or designating gun stores as essential businesses during the Covid pandemic.
Biden’s gun control promises
In contrast, Biden managed to pass in Congress in 2022 with the support of Democrats and Republicans the most important gun control law in the last three decades and has promised that he will try to ban assault rifles if his party achieves a victory in the elections. of 2024.
Before Trump gave his speech, Vice President Kamala Harris, who champions the administration’s efforts to end gun violence, issued a harsh statement against him.
Harris recalled some statements that Trump made this year after a school shooting in Iowa. At the time, the former president said that it was a “very terrible” incident, but then he assured that We had to “get over” the shootings and “look forward.”
“Biden and I have sat with grieving families, and the idea of telling them to ‘get over it’ is unacceptable. “Joe Biden and I are working together to find common sense solutions to this national epidemic, because we believe that Americans have the right to live free from the horror of gun violence,” Harris said, according to the campaign in a statement.
Americans support more gun controls
Surveys show that the majority of the US population supports greater gun control.
In fact, according to an October 2023 Gallup poll, only 12% of Americans believe gun laws should be looser, while 56% think they should be stricter and 31% say they should remain as they are for now.
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