Donald Trump, like most Republican politicians, is supportive of the second amendment, since it is the equivalent of a political piss test you must pass in order to run as a Republican.
“The right of self-defense doesn't stop at the end of your driveway. That's why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of Americans do too. That permit should be valid in all 50 states,” Trump wrote.
Trump is also famous now for using the attacks in Paris as an example of why people in America need to be armed with guns, as he mentions at every single rally:
"If a bunch of terrorists came in here and there were people in here with guns, it would be very unlikely that they would be able to carry about the kind of massacre they did in Paris."
That argument doesn't have much support in France — a country that has around 1,800 firearms deaths every year, as opposed to the more than 33,000 in the United States.
And yet, despite all his rhetoric, an interesting fact Mr. Trump does not mention is that every last one of his rallies are gun free zones, a concept he opposes and wants to do away with, but is at least indirectly supportive of, since he was the first Republican candidate to ask for Secret Service protection.
But there's a snag in that approach -- the demands of the Secret Service agents now protecting him, at his request (and at taxpayer expense). They don't allow any guns except those carried by authorized personnel.
Perhaps the Trumpeteers, as his band of happy followers are often referred to, should mention this little twist of irony. Mr. Trump himself is worth over 8 billion dollars, as he reminds us every chance he gets, so I assume he could afford his own security detail and then he could allow concealed weapons to be carried at his rallies.