A rifle sold in the United States brought the country to the brink of civil war. The issue of gun control, particularly regarding rifles like the AR-15, is a highly contentious topic in the United States. This rifle has been used in several high-profile mass shootings, including those at schools, sparking debates over public safety and Second Amendment rights. Despite significant public outcry and numerous legislative attempts to regulate or ban such firearms, strong political, legal, and cultural factors have hindered comprehensive reform. The Supreme Court has interpreted the Second Amendment as protecting an individual’s right to own firearms, which complicates efforts to impose strict regulations. Additionally, powerful lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association (NRA) exert substantial influence over lawmakers, making it difficult to pass legislation that restricts gun ownership. As a result, despite the recurring tragedies and public demand for change, the sale of these rifles remains legal and widespread.
AR-15-style rifle was the primary gun of American soldiers in the Vietnam War.
This killer rifle is the “AR-15 Style” produced in the 1950s, for American soldiers after World War II. In the sixties and seventies, it was the primary gun of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. The United States lost the Vietnam War but these gun dealers did not fail, because they started selling “AR-15” in American shopping and grocery stores with a few changes. The gun lobby has made billions of dollars selling this rifle. The price of this gun ranges from five hundred USD to three thousand USD, depending upon its different styles and specs. And this gun has been sold so much since the Vietnam War that by 2022, one out of every twenty American Youths own it. An estimated 16 million ( One Crore sixty lakh) Americans own this gun. How many hold them secretly? Nobody knows. So if we keep this minimum known number in front and also take the price as middle two thousand USD. (that is between 500 UDS to 3000 USD price ranges). So far the gun lobby has earned 32 billion USD from this gun alone. Today, every gun dealer in America makes and sells a slightly different copy of it, Producing “key rings” and “shirts” to market it. Free shooting tests are given for this. American businessmen are willing to go to any lengths for profit.
The Gun Violence Archive reports 565 mass shootings in 2023, which is many more than days of the year. Guns are the leading cause of death for children in America, with 2,590 killed in 2021. Over 1.5 million Americans have lost their lives to largely preventable gun violence since 1975, more than in all 30 developed countries combined.
The AR-15-style rifle is one of the most popular guns in the US. It has also been a common denominator in some of the country’s worst mass shootings.
The AR-15-style rifle is a semi-automatic weapon, meaning a user can fire multiple shots in quick succession. In May 2022, a former student used an AR-15 to shoot dead nineteen children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The weapon was also used in October 2017 in Las Vegas, where a gunman massacred 60 people at a music festival.
The biggest political supporters of the open freedom of guns, including this gun, are the people of Donald Trump’s party, the Republicans. Some of his senators consider the sale of this gun, the AR-15, as a national duty and have declared it as the National Gun. However, in the five years 2017 to 2022, ordinary Americans shot and killed more than 207 ordinary Americans, most of whom were children and in some places, pregnant women. In other words, an AR-15 rifle was used in ten out of seventeen mass murder incidents.
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Mathew Crooks tried to target American Former President Donald.
It was the AR-15 rifle, the beloved gun of the Republicans through which a twenty-year-old young man, Mathew Crooks tried to target American Former President Donald Trump by firing six bullets. If, at the last moment, by sheer chance, Donald Trump had not turned and looked back, the AR-15’s bullet would have hit the back of his head. And America would have been plunged into apocalyptic chaos or a god-forsaken civil war because this is the first time since the American Civil War of the 1860s that America has had a terrible political divide. The division is so deep that the opponents are not ready to accept each other’s human rights. So in such a situation, if Donald Trump had become a target of AR-15, the danger of a civil war-like situation could not be ignored. If anyone doubts, that the Donald Trump cult can’t pull it off, just remember the public outrage of the 6th January 2021, the United States Capitol attack.
Now look at the irony of fate that the gun that fired at Donald Trump was not only the national gun as declared by the Republicans. But the young man who shot at him, Mathew Crooks, was also a registered voter of Trump’s party, the Republicans. Rather, he recently donated 15 USD from his pocket money to the party for the election campaign. Ironically, even at this terrible stage, the Americans, and especially the Republicans, had no desire to ban the general sale of these guns and other such rifles. The reason is very obvious, there is a dark economy of billions of dollars behind it. The economy that funds presidents to get elected.
The gun lobby is one of the four American lobbies that have American politics in their grip. These four lobbies include the gun Control, the Israeli lobby, the weapons manufacturers, and the drug industries. Together they form the American establishment and the Pentagon stands by its military machine. American Presidents and White House policymakers cannot make any policy by ignoring all four. If made, then cannot act.
Well, we were talking about America being half an inch away from the worst chaos. But that half-inch skyrocketed President Donald Trump’s election campaign. His campaign energy and popularity skyrocketed. The leaders and classes of the world who had placed their hopes on the return of Donald Trump began to consider this event as a resurrection. Evangelical Christians and orthodox white Americans sided with him out of devotion, compassion, and divine commandment. Donald Trump himself started saying that only God saved him. In other words, he was saved by God to save Americans. Donald Trump can’t even be blamed for thinking this because his supporters worship him like a God. When Donald Trump was injured and had a bandage on his ear, his cult-minded followers also put show bands on their ears. Almost every Trumpian attending the 18th July meeting wore earplugs. It was all telling that Donald Trump, who was already in the lead, would sweep the polls in every poll after the failed assassination attempt and create a winning momentum that would carry over to November 5.
But alas, that could not happen, as a few days after this attack, two new developments took place, that not only put the brake on the growing popularity of Donald Trump but also took him back. The first small event was a survey result. When the American people were asked in an atmosphere of sympathy immediately after the failed assassination attempt on Trump, who would the Americans vote for, Joe Biden or Donald Trump? So the answer was far from expected. In this survey, Donald Trump’s expected popularity rating increased by only one percentage point. But the second event was a bigger, much bigger surprise. The news is that 81-year-old President Joe Biden has finally dropped out of the Presidential race. The sudden announcement by Joe Biden surprised the Americans and the discussion on Donald Trump’s failed assassination ended the topic itself, which was the topic of discussion regarding the US election. He wrote that he will now turn his full attention to completing the rest of his presidential term in the best possible manner. The letter went viral on social media as soon as it was released.
The topic of discussion on popularity in Donald Trump’s sympathy dissolved into thin air. As there had been debate among Democrats for months that he was not a fit candidate for the next five years, he should withdraw, but the weak Joe Biden was adamant that he was fit. He will not be out. Then, Donald Trump was constantly making fun of Joe Biden’s age and health to make his presidential campaign shine, especially on social media. He had no idea that this joke of old age was going to backfire on him. Because as soon as Joe Biden distanced himself from the campaign, the oldest candidate is now 78-year-old Donald Trump, not Joe Biden.
Icing on the cake, Joe Biden named his Vice President, 59-year-old Kamala Harris as Presidential candidate in the next tweet. That is, now Donald Trump was going to compete with a candidate twenty years younger than him. Kamala Harris also received record-breaking funds within 24 hours of her first day of formal nomination which Joe Biden could not achieve even after several months of campaigning. Kamala Harris received one hundred million dollars in funds in twenty-four hours, which reached 126 million in the next few hours. So far, every fundraiser and Democrat leader, including Barak Obama has endorsed her. That is, now all they have to do is to choose their Vice President who will, of course, be a white male American in order to create an act of balance.
Kamala Harris lineage
Kamala is the daughter of a black father who was from Jamaica and her mother was from Chennai of South India. Kamala Harris is heavily influenced by her mother and has worked her way up to a career as an attorney, first to senate and then to vice president. While practicing in California and San Francisco, She has prosecuted fraudsters and money changers fraudsters and rapists. And this is proving to be the most dangerous thing for Donald Trump and his campaigners. As Donald Trump, facing lawsuits over his Trump University forced admission and high-fee fraud case, he has also faced accusations from women and has repeatedly certified himself as smart for not paying taxes. And Kamala Harris has been chasing and punishing such fraudsters throughout her practical life. That is why she said in her first press appearance after her nomination that she knows the type of fraudsters like Donald Trump.
This is very important because Kamala Harris’s confidence in the campaign will be like a prosecutor who is used to cross-examining accused and fraudsters and Donald Trump will not be able to hide his white-collar crimes from at least one expert attorney like Kamala Harris even if he wanted to. Compared to Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s confidence will be low as he is standing in the dock of an accused and fraudster one, who is told by a prosecutor at every meeting how and where, and what fraud you have committed. And Donald Trump as an accused fraudster will try to hide from her and will always be in a defensive position. This perception has spread so quickly that after the first announcement in less than a week where Donald Trump was ahead of Democrat Joe Biden by 6 percentage points. He fell back by 5 percentage points and only one percentage point ahead of Kamala Harris.
According to CNN, immediately after his nomination, her support increased by 8 percent of black voters, 5 percent of women voters, and 4 percent of young voters.
The hope for support from Muslim voters is significant as Kamala’s stance on the Gaza war has been slightly different from Joe Biden’s. For one thing, she does not call herself a Zionist like Biden. Then, When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu made a 6-day visit to the USA and on the second day July 15, he met US President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris an interesting situation occurred. After the meeting, the public remarks were not given by the US President, but by Vice President Kamala Harris. She talked about the ceasefire and said that we cannot ignore the loss of human lives and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. We want to see Israel safe and Palestinians in a free country. We will check anti-Jewish and ethnic Islam slogans. I am looking for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. This does not mean that Kamala Harris is supporting the Palestinians instead of Israel. It simply indicated to a reception given by the American Congress to the Israeli Prime Minister a few minutes ago, Kamala Harris’s public remarks were the opposite of it. Netanyahu’s reception in the White House clearly showed the sick mindset of American leaders. The reception was such that during Netanyahu’s speech at the Joint House all US leaders, Senators, and Representatives stood and applauded 65 times in 50 minutes. Even those words were clapped which did not merit applause, They would give standing ovations twice in a single sentence. If we go through the speech we will easily understand how badly America is in the clutches of lobbyists on Israeli issues. Responses from the US Senators and Representatives on Netanyahu’s speech one could expect that Kamal Harris and Joe Biden would also show a similar posture after meeting the Israeli Prime Minster and would only talk to please him and no ceasefire. And the killing of 40,000 children and innocent people in Gaza would not be talked about so that the guest does not have a bitter feeling. But it did not happen. Kamala Harris spoke the traditional words for 2.5 minutes in support of Israel, then spent the next six minutes talking in detail about the heavy casualties in Gaza and the ceasefire deal.
Hundred days ahead of the election it is hard to say about her victory or how tough she will be for Donald Trump, but it is certain with conviction and evidence that Kamala Harris is going to be a much tougher opponent of Trump than Joe Biden. Secondly, Kamala Harris has started to gain momentum which is the most important thing in any election campaign. At the same time, many world leaders who had pinned hopes on Donald Trump’s victory are also looking worried. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who persuaded Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, terminated the peace deal with Iran and recognized the disputed Golan Heights as part of Israel. He is also worried. The sign of worries would be seen in his anti-Democratic rhetoric.
After him, Russian President Vladimir Putin is also among them. The reason is that Donald Trump is opposed to the Ukraine war and has repeatedly said that when he returns to the White House, he will give Putin a free hand to do anything with Ukraine. European members of NATO which do not contribute funds would not be taken care of by the United States. Then he is also not in favour of billion of dollars in aid to Ukraine. It is quite possible that on coming to power, he would procrastinate or obstruct this aid. In China, Xi Jinping has also been comfortable in deals with Donald Trump.
As dealing with an emotional leader is easier than dealing with a smart leader. On the opposite of it, Ukraine, Great Britain, and most European Countries are really afraid of Donald Trump, because he has threatened to stop the funding of NATO forces, the biggest guarantor of European security. Rather he has also hinted that he may withdraw the US from NATO. The November 2024, US Election is going to be the most important of the 21st century, which will bring many geo-strategical changes. From the year 2025, we will see a new world. This is not the first turning point in American history, it had many turning points in the past when the change of American leadership, not only brought about changes in their domestic issues and conditions but also gave a new direction to the geo-strategic issues around the world.
