Just a few months after telling Republican lawmakers they shouldn’t be afraid of the NRA, and he would protect them, President Trump denounced gun control at the NRA’s annual convention Friday in Dallas. After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Trump promised to support a ban on assault weapons, raising the minimum age to purchase a gun, and promised to fix the background checks system. That lasted only a brief few days.
On Friday afternoon, Trump talked about terror attacks, including the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando. He also grotesquely described the actions of a mass shooter.
But then the President mocked the idea of gun control, citing terrorists using trucks, vans, and cars to mow down pedestrians (video below).
“It seems that if we’re going to outlaw guns, like so many people want to do – Democrats – then we are going to have to outlaw immediately all vans and all trucks, which are now the new form of death for the maniac terrorists,” he said, somewhat sarcastically. “How about cars? Let’s not sell any more cars.”
Trump then said there’s a hospital in London that is like a “war zone,” because of knife stabbings.