Former President Donald Trump addressed low voter turnout among gun owners and urged them to get out and vote in November during his Wednesday campaign rally in Uniondale, New York.
Trump said, “You know, it’s an interesting thing — Evangelical Christians, they tend not to vote very much; if they did, you’d never lose.”
He added, “Gun owners…don’t vote — meaning they don’t vote in a proportion that they should; very small numbers vote…The gun owners have to get out and vote.”
Trump has been a consistent defender of the Second Amendment and is endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) in this race, as he was in 2016 and 2020.
On August 8, 2024, nearly a month after the first assassination attempt against him, Trump pointed out that the heinous attack did not change his conviction that the American “people need guns for protection.”
He said this after a reporter asked him if the assassination attempt had changed his views on gun ownership.
Trump added, “If you take away guns — and [Kamala Harris] wants to take away everyone’s guns — if you want to take away guns, you can’t do it because people need the guns for protection.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, a Pulsar Night Vision pro-staffer, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly:
