Former US President Donald Trump insists that citizens should be able to carry weapons to defend themselves. He said so in a speech at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual gun lobby conference. Previously, media including The Washington Post, already excerpts from his speech from which this emerged.
“The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to deprive law-abiding citizens of their weapons, the existence of evil is one of the very best reasons for arming law-abiding citizens,” Trump told audiences at the three-day gun lobby conference on Tuesday. Houston.
According to the former head of state, stricter gun laws could not have prevented the massacre. “The various rules being pushed by the left to restrict gun ownership would have done nothing to prevent the horror that took place. Absolutely nothing.”
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Trump believes stricter security measures are needed in schools after the Texas elementary school shooting. He also advocates “dramatically changing the approach to mental health”. He read out the names of the nineteen children who died in Ulvalde and described them as victims of a runaway “crazy”.
Because of the massacre in Uvalde, there is a lot of national and international attention for the congress, which is also in Texas. Protesters gathered near the congress on Friday.