Donald Trump Announces His Gun Plan… "Protecting Our Second Amendment Rights Will Make America Great Again"

September 20th, 2015

Awake Goy

The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the
people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period. The
Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right that belongs to all
law-abiding Americans.
~ Donald Trump

The Constitution doesn’t create that right – it
ensures that the government can’t take it away.

Our Founding Fathers
knew, and our Supreme Court has upheld, that the Second Amendment’s
purpose is to guarantee our right to defend ourselves and our families.
This is about self-defense, plain and simple.

It’s been
said that the Second Amendment is America’s first freedom. That’s
because the Right to Keep and Bear Arms protects all our other rights.
We are the only country in the world that has a Second Amendment.
Protecting that freedom is imperative.

Here’s how we will do that:

Enforce The Laws On The Books!

We
need to get serious about prosecuting violent criminals. The Obama
administration’s record on that is abysmal. Violent crime in cities like
Baltimore, Chicago and many others is out of control. Drug dealers and
gang members are given a slap on the wrist and turned loose on the
street. This needs to stop.

Several years ago there was a
tremendous program in Richmond, Virginia called Project Exile. It said
that if a violent felon uses a gun to commit a crime, you will be
prosecuted in federal court and go to prison for five years – no parole
or early release.

Obama’s former Attorney General, Eric Holder, called
that a “cookie cutter” program. That’s ridiculous. I call that program a
success.

Murders committed with guns in Richmond decreased by over 60%
when Project Exile was in place – in the first two years of the program
alone, 350 armed felons were taken off the street.

Why
does that matter to law-abiding gun owners? Because they’re the ones who
anti-gun politicians and the media blame when criminals misuse guns.

We
need to bring back and expand programs like Project Exile and get gang
members and drug dealers off the street. When we do, crime will go down
and our cities and communities will be safer places to live.

Here’s
another important way to fight crime – empower law-abiding gun owners
to defend themselves. Law enforcement is great, they do a tremendous
job, but they can’t be everywhere all of the time.

Our personal
protection is ultimately up to us. That’s why I’m a gun owner, that’s
why I have a concealed carry permit, and that’s why tens of millions of
Americans have concealed carry permits as well.

It’s just common sense.
To make America great again, we’re going to go after criminals and put
the law back on the side of the law-abiding.

Fix Our Broken Mental Health System

Let’s
be clear about this. Our mental health system is broken. It needs to be
fixed. Too many politicians have ignored this problem for too long.

All
of the tragic mass murders that occurred in the past several years have
something in common – there were red flags that were ignored. We can’t
allow that to continue.

We need to expand treatment programs, because
most people with mental health problems aren’t violent, they just need
help.

But for those who are violent, a danger to themselves or others,
we need to get them off the street before they can terrorize our
communities. This is just common sense.

And why does this
matter to law-abiding gun owners? Once again, because they get blamed
by anti-gun politicians, gun control groups and the media for the acts
of deranged madmen.

When one of these tragedies occurs, we can count on
two things: one, that opponents of gun rights will immediately exploit
it to push their political agenda; and two, that none of their so-called
“solutions” would have prevented the tragedy in the first place.
They’ve even admitted it.

We need real solutions to address real problems. Not grandstanding or political agendas.

Defend The Rights of Law-Abiding Gun Owners

GUN AND MAGAZINE BANS.

Gun and magazine bans are a total failure. That’s been proven every
time it’s been tried. Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary
sounding phrases like “assault weapons”, “military-style weapons” and
“high capacity magazines” to confuse people.

What they’re really talking
about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are
owned by tens of millions of Americans.

Law-abiding people should be
allowed to own the firearm of their choice. The government has no
business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are
allowed to own.

BACKGROUND CHECKS.
There
has been a national background check system in place since 1998. Every
time a person buys a gun from a federally licensed gun dealer – which is
the overwhelming majority of all gun purchases – they go through a
federal background check.

Study after study has shown that very few
criminals are stupid enough to try and pass a background check – they
get their guns from friends/family members or by stealing them. So the
overwhelming majority of people who go through background checks are
law-abiding gun owners.

When the system was created, gun owners were
promised that it would be instant, accurate and fair. Unfortunately,
that isn’t the case today.

Too many states are failing to put criminal
and mental health records into the system – and it should go without
saying that a system’s only going to be as effective as the records that
are put into it.

What we need to do is fix the system we have and make
it work as intended. What we don’t need to do is expand a broken system.

NATIONAL RIGHT TO CARRY.

The right of self-defense doesn’t stop at the end of your driveway.
That’s why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of
Americans do too. That permit should be valid in all 50 states.

A
driver’s license works in every state, so it’s common sense that a
concealed carry permit should work in every state. If we can do that for
driving – which is a privilege, not a right – then surely we can do
that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege.

MILITARY BASES AND RECRUITING CENTERS.
Banning
our military from carrying firearms on bases and at recruiting centers
is ridiculous. We train our military how to safely and responsibly use
firearms, but our current policies leave them defenseless.

To make
America great again, we need a strong military. To have a strong
military, we need to allow them to defend themselves.

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