US President Donald Trump’s decision to curb the use of gun-enhancing devices such as a bump-stock ban is a late and inadequate decision that is mostly motivated by reelection concerns, says an African American journalist in Detroit.
“Trump is merely responding because he thinks he will be very vulnerable in the upcoming 2020 [presidential] elections,” said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire.
“It’s not a genuine approach, it’s a half-hearted- approach, and it’s an approach that really does not get to the heart of the issue,” Azikiwe told Press TV on Sunday.
“We’ve had so many mass shootings in this country…this is happening on a daily basis in the United States,” he added.
Last week, Nikolas Cruz, an ex-student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, opened fire with an AR-15-style assault rifle, killing 17 people in his former school. It was the second-deadliest shooting at a…