Biden is doing this to drive a wedge into Republicans. The gun nuts and the ones that don’t care about guns will have differing opinions because now gun violence affects them directly. It’s really smart.

Biden looks presidential. Trump has three choices:

Come out against AR-15s, for obvious reasons. This makes gun nuts less likely to vote for him.

Come out in favor of AR-15s. He looks insane to Republicans who don’t care about guns.

Trump ignores the issue or waffles and looks unpresidential.

Number 3 is most likely. Of course the correct answer is number 4: propose a competing policy that is nuanced. But that’s impossible for trump.

Gun control, especially banning the most popular and utilitarian platform, is a massive political loser. This is incredibly poor timing for a struggling campaign.

utilitarian platform

What does that mean?

Narrator: its a made up phrase