New York Daily News

Donald goes nuts for guns

- BY DENIS SLATTERY

PRESIDENT TRUMP, to the cheers of NRA members, once again offered his dubious solution to America’s spate of school shootings: More guns.

Firing from the hip, Trump told the crowd at the NRA convention that the nation needs to arm its teachers and abolish gun-free zones to stop the mass murders.

“There’s no sign more inviting to a mass killer than a sign that declares, ‘This school is a gun-free zone. Come in and take us,’ ” Trump insisted Friday in his 45-minute address.

Though many mass shootings end with the killer’s suicide, the President insisted the greatest deterrent to such carnage was “the knowledge that their attack will end their life.”

Trump’s hard-line remarks catered to his pro-gun base just two months after the Parkland, Fla., school massacre led him to reconsider his unwavering progun stance.

Seventeen people were killed in the Feb. 14 slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that set off coast-tocoast demonstrat­ions. The President even suggested back then that his fellow Republican­s were “afraid of the NRA” before backpedali­ng himself.

The flip-flop came as no surprise considerin­g the NRA invested $30 million in Trump’s successful 2016 run for the White House.

Trump, the headliner at the organizati­on’s conviction for the fourth straight year, hailed NRA members as “true patriots” — and bizarrely warned that Democrats were coming to disarm them.

“Your Second Amendment rights are under siege,” the President said at the gun rights group’s annual convention.

“But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your President . . . We believe that our liberty is a gift from our creator, and that no government can ever take it away.”

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