Kim Kardashian Slams Trump, Calls For Stricter Gun Control On National Gun Violence Awareness Day

Kim Kardashian used National Gun Violence Awareness Day to share a heartfelt note on her app about gun reform. The 36-year-old “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star — who was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris apartment in October — specifically addressed her own experiences with gun violence to plea for stricter gun control laws in the United States.

While the star wrote Friday that she’s “not against guns and I’m not against people owning guns,” Kardashian slammed President Donald Trump’s decision to repeal an Obama-era rule that aimed to block the sale of guns to certain mentally ill people. She also pointed to mass shootings such as Newtown and Columbine as evidence of the need for further restrictions on access to guns in the U.S.

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“It’s been 18 years since Columbine, 10 years since Virginia Tech, four years since Newtown and we’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of the Orlando nightclub shooting,” she said. “In almost 20 years, our country has made very little progress in enacting laws that would help protect innocent Americans from people who should not have access to firearms. Right now, there are more guns owned by civilians in this country than in any other country in the world. In February of this year, President Trump actually signed a bill revoking a regulation recommended by President Obama that would have added 75,000 names of people with registered mental illnesses to a national background check database. This is crazy!”

Kardashian went on to describe her work with Everytown for Gun Safety, an American nonprofit that works to educate the public and politicians alike about better gun safety legislation. Kardashian wrote that there’s “such a disconnect between what the country needs to protect our people and the laws that are proposed and enacted.”

She added, “We have imposed restrictions on a number of constitutional rights for the sake of protecting people in this country, including freedom of speech and the right to exercise religious beliefs, so why is the Second Amendment any different? Is it more important to protect the Second Amendment than to protect our own children? Maybe you think so, maybe you don’t—but it’s important for us to at least continue to discuss and debate this openly, and to bring attention to the reality of gun violence and gun control.”

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Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris apartment on Oct. 3, 2016. The prolific social media maven famously took months away from the public eye, instead focusing her energy on spending time with her husband Kanye West and the couple’s two children, 3-year-old North and 1-year-old Saint. The star mentioned her experience with the robbery in her Friday statement and stressed the importance of stricter gun laws for “those at a higher risk of committing gun violence.”

“I’m not against guns and I’m not against people owning guns,” Kardashian wrote on her app. “After what happened to me in Paris, I know how important it is to be safe and to have armed security. All of my security team is armed, but they also support stricter gun control laws and believe that we should restrict access to firearms for people with mental illness, anyone previously convicted of a misdemeanor, those who have been subject to a temporary restraining order and those at a higher risk of committing gun violence.”

Kardashian joins a long list of celebrities — including Denis O'Hare, Julianne Moore, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham and more — who will be wearing orange to show solidarity and support for efforts aimed at enacting stricter gun control laws in the United States.