一些枪支暴力预防一些团体周三表示，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)夺回白宫并承诺逆转总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)遏制全国瘟疫的努力后，他们计划加倍努力，争取更强有力的枪支管制法律。
在他的胜利战役特朗普和他的竞选伙伴万斯(JD Vance)对拜登的大多数行政命令表示反对约翰·霍普金斯枪支暴力解决方案中心连续三年被发现是美国19岁以下青少年死亡的主要原因。
“唐纳德·特朗普的当选对我们的安全和免受枪支暴力的自由造成了极大的困扰，”布雷迪防止枪支暴力运动的主席克里斯·布朗周三在一份声明中说。“这就是为什么我们加倍努力，比以往任何时候都更加努力。”
枪支暴力在竞选中是一个大问题。在一个ABC新闻/华盛顿邮报/益普索民意调查在8月份公布的调查中，枪支暴力在选民中的重要性排名第八，排在经济、通货膨胀、医疗保健、保护民主、犯罪和安全、移民和最高法院之后。
在美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)分析的初步全国出口民调中，选民表示，在处理犯罪和安全问题上，他们信任川普多于副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯，比例为50%比48%。
特朗普在竞选中经常抱怨他所说的移民犯罪“激增”，包括几起据称由无证移民犯下的高调杀人案。A2020研究在《美国国家科学院院刊》中，发现美国出生的公民因暴力犯罪被捕的可能性是移民的两倍多。
布朗表示，这不会是第一个占领白宫的支持枪支权利的政府，并补充说，特朗普在椭圆形办公室的前四年是“美国人的致命时期”。特朗普第一个任期内发生的大规模枪击事件包括2017年拉斯维加斯91号公路丰收节音乐会上的大屠杀，造成58人死亡，850多人受伤;2018年佛罗里达州帕克兰市马乔里·斯通曼·道格拉斯高中发生大规模枪击事件，造成17名学生和工作人员死亡;2019年，德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的沃尔玛发生枪击事件，造成23人死亡，近24人受伤。
“所以，即使我们在白宫没有朋友，布雷迪也不会放弃一英寸，”布朗谈到她的组织时说道，该组织以白宫新闻秘书詹姆斯·“吉姆”·布雷迪命名，詹姆斯·布雷迪在1981年试图暗杀时任总统罗纳德·里根时遭到枪击，终身残疾，后来因伤势过重于2014年去世。
布朗补充说，“防止枪支暴力的运动一直都大于一个办公室，我们将继续与全国各地的活动家，幸存者，社区领袖和民选官员合作，争取进步，使整个国家更加安全，远离枪支暴力。”
特朗普和万斯曾表示反对全国禁止攻击性武器，他们得到了全国步枪协会(NRA)的支持。
今年2月，特朗普在宾夕法尼亚州哈里斯堡的一个论坛上告诉全国步枪协会成员，在他的第二个任期内，“没有人会动你的枪支”。
特朗普当时说:“在我的四年里，什么都没发生，我承受了很多与枪支有关的压力。”“我们什么也没做，我们没有屈服。一旦你做出一点让步，那只是开始，雪崩就开始了。”
今年5月，特朗普在达拉斯的全国步枪协会大会上发表讲话，概述了他在第二个任期内将采取的一些行动。
特朗普在演讲中说:“在我的第二个任期内，我们将击退拜登对第二修正案的每一次攻击——攻击既快又激烈——从弯曲的乔走出白宫的那一刻开始。”
特朗普还在演讲中发誓要解雇烟酒枪械爆炸物管理局(ATF)局长史蒂文·德特巴赫(Steven Dettelbach)。众议院共和党人也表示，他们希望取消或大幅削减对ATF的资助。
“在就职日的中午，我们将解雇反枪支狂热分子史蒂夫·德特巴赫，”特朗普告诉全国步枪协会的与会者。“你听说过他吗?他是个灾难。”
枪支控制倡导者表示，他们预计川普会试图淡化两党合作的《更安全社区法案》(BSCA)，这是拜登在2022年6月签署的30年来第一部重要的枪支安全法，大约一个月前，一名十几岁的枪手在得克萨斯州乌瓦尔迪的罗布小学(Robb Elementary School)杀害了19名学生和两名教师。BSCA加强了对21岁以下枪支购买者的背景调查，堵塞了所谓的“男友漏洞”，以防止被判犯有家庭暴力罪的人购买枪支，并拨款7.5亿美元帮助各州实施“红旗法”，以消除被认为对自己和他人有危险的人的枪支。
倡导者还预计特朗普将废除拜登政府下成立的、由哈里斯监管的第一个白宫枪支暴力预防办公室。
Moms Demand Action的执行董事安吉拉·费雷尔-萨巴拉周三在社交媒体上发布了一份声明，称她的枪支暴力预防小组也计划继续为保护美国人免受枪支暴力的法律而斗争。
“如果这项工作教会了我什么，那就是无论如何，我们总是能够并将确保胜利，以保护我们的社区免受枪支暴力。这个障碍没什么不同。今天，我们被这个结果击垮了，”费雷尔-萨巴拉在谈到川普的胜利时说。“明天，我们将继续组织起来，就像我们的生活依赖于它一样——因为它们确实如此。”
'Deeply troubling': Gun-violence prevention groups react to Trump victory
Somegun violence preventiongroups said Wednesday that they plan to double down in their fight for stronger firearm-control laws in the wake of former President Donald Trump recapturing the White House and promising to roll back President Joe Biden's efforts to curb the national plague.
During hisvictorious campaign, Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, voiced opposition to most of Biden's executive orders to combat the scourge that theJohns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutionsfound to be the leading cause of death in the United States for adolescents under the age of 19 for three straight years.
"The election of Donald Trump is deeply troubling for our safety and freedom from gun violence," Kris Brown, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement Wednesday. "And that's why we are doubling down on our work and fighting harder than ever."
Gun violencewas a big issue during the campaign. In anABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos pollreleased in August, gun violence was ranked eighth in importance among voters after the economy, inflation, health care, protecting democracy, crime and safety, immigration and the Supreme Court.
In preliminary national exit polls analyzed by ABC News, voters said they trusted Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, 50% to 48%, in handling the issue of crime and safety.
In his campaign, Trump often railed against what he described as a "surge" in migrant crime, including several high-profile homicides allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants. A2020 studyin the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found U.S.-born citizens are over 2 times more likely than migrants to be arrested for violent crimes.
Brown said it won't be the first pro-gun rights administration that has occupied the White House, adding that Trump's previous four years in the Oval Office were marked by a "deadly period for Americans." Among the mass shootings that occurred during Trump's first term was the 2017 massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Festival music concert in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and more than 850 people wounded; the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 students and staff; and the 2019 shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that claimed 23 lives and injured nearly two dozen other people.
"So even though we won't have a friend in the White House, Brady isn't giving up an inch," Brown said of her organization named after White House press secretary James "Jim" Brady, who was shot and permanently disabled in the 1981 assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan and later died in 2014 as a result of his wounds.
Brown added, "The movement to prevent gun violence has always been larger than one office, and we'll continue to work with activists, survivors, community leaders and elected officials in states across the country to fight for progress that makes the whole country safer from gun violence."
Trump and Vance, who have said they oppose a national ban on assault weapons, were endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
In February, Trump told NRA members at a forum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "No one will lay a finger on your firearms" during his second term in office.
"During my four years, nothing happened and there was a lot of pressure on me having to do with guns," Trump said at the time. "We did nothing, we didn’t yield. And once you yield a little bit that’s just the beginning, that’s [when] the avalanche begins."
In May, Trump spoke at the NRA convention in Dallas and outlined some of the actions he'll take in his second term.
"In my second term, we will roll back every Biden attack on the Second Amendment -- the attacks are fast and furious -- starting the minute that Crooked Joe shuffles his way out of the White House,” Trump said in the speech.
Trump also vowed during the speech to fire Steven Dettelbach, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). House Republicans have also said they want to abolish or drastically cut funding for the ATF.
"At noon on Inauguration Day, we will sack the anti-gun fanatic Steve Dettelbach," Trump told NRA conventioneers. "Have you ever heard of him? He’s a disaster."
Gun control advocates said they expect Trump to try to water down the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), the first major gun safety law enacted in 30 years that Biden signed in June 2022, about a month after a teenage gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The BSCA enhances background checks for gun buyers under 21, closes the so-called "boyfriend loophole" to prevent people convicted of domestic abuse from purchasing guns, and allocates $750 million to help states implement "red flag laws" to remove firearms from people deemed to be dangerous to themselves and others.
Advocates also expect Trump to abolish the first White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention established under the Biden administration and overseen by Harris.
Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action released a statement on social media Wednesday, saying her gun violence prevention group also plans to continue to fight for laws that protect Americans from gun violence.
"If this work has taught me anything, it's that no matter what, we always can and will secure victories to protect our communities from gun violence. This obstacle is no different. Today, we are crushed by this result," Ferrell-Zabala said of Trump's victory. "Tomorrow, we're going to continue to organize like our lives depend on it -- because they do."
