Some thought that there were changing winds in the United States that finally congress would impose some kind of Gun Regulations that could help prevent this kind of massacre from taking place in the future but now having seen this speech from donald trump in front of the n. R. A. It shows that he is back in line with the n. R. A. Is prefer Policy Preferences so whats changed because of. The popular florida shootings he said that he would go to the go. So why was he bumped away from mine. Its true in the days after we did hear trump say that there needed to be some kind of action and that americans need to stand up to the n. R. A. But i think even this took republicans by surprise somebody has talked him back from that statements and he sees where his support is this is his base and hes really playing to them in a speech before the n. R. A. Were in an Election Year there are there are elections in november for the midterms and then ari has been a big supporter of republican candidates
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and they can make or break countersuits well to fans a little bit certainly they have a lot of money to spend in the last elections in two thousand and sixteen we saw them give fifty five million dollars to republican candidates now the vast majority the majority of americans say that they want to see straight controls on gun control but we have seen the n.r.a. putting a lot of money into political campaigns of people who support their policies and this is the main criticism from the student organizers who came together after the massacre in parkland florida they say that these politicians are in the pockets of the n.r.a. and they say that they re willing to vote them out of office this fall however of course it remains to be seen whether they will actually make it to the ballot box as youth voter turnout is generally low in the united states. what happened to about campaign you mentioned the this campaign that started with the florida
the walk outs the huge marches with lots of a celebrity support could lead it to pressure congress and donald trump into kind of backing off his support for gun lobbyist groups but here we see him really giving the n.r.a. and its supporters his full backing clear what does that say about the state of polarization in the country. well it s interesting because in some ways the democrats still have not coherently rallied behind gun control as an election issue obviously we have midterm elections coming up in november of this year and the n.r.a. spent fifty five million dollars on backing republican candidates in the twenty sixteen elections so it is a very partisan issue it s not necessarily one that we re going to see as a front and forward issue in the polls but trump knows that this is his base this is a massive rally of about eighty thousand people or a massive convention which is really trying to rally his supporters to get them to