{"id":349325,"date":"2018-02-22T06:13:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T05:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-gun-policy-based-on-reelection-concerns\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T06:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T05:13:21","slug":"presstv-trump-gun-policy-based-on-reelection-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-gun-policy-based-on-reelection-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Trump gun policy based on reelection concerns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is merely responding because he thinks he will be very vulnerable in the upcoming 2020 [presidential] elections,\u201d\u00a0said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a genuine approach, it\u2019s a half-hearted- approach, and it\u2019s an approach that really does not get to the heart of the issue,\u201d Azikiwe told Press TV on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had so many mass shootings in this country\u2026this is happening on a daily basis in the United States,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/22\/553175\/gun-control-Donald-trump-bumpstock-NRA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s 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. \u201cTrump is merely responding because he thinks he will be very vulnerable in the upcoming 2020 [presidential] elections,\u201d\u00a0said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}