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Point-&-shoot prez: I'll guard your gun rights
President Trump gave a rousing speech Friday at the NRA’s annual convention — blaming France’s tough gun laws for a deadly terror attack in Paris, renewing his call to arm teachers to prevent school shootings and vowing to protect the Second Amendment.
“So let’s talk about guns, shall we? Paris, France, has the toughest gun laws in the world. Nobody has guns. Nobody,” the president told the record crowd of about 80,000 at the convention in Dallas.
“We all remember more than 130 people plus tremendous numbers of people that were horribly, horribly wounded. Nobody ever talks about them. They talk about the people that died. They never mention that 250 [sic] people had horrible, horrible wounds,” Trump said about the November 2015 terror attack by Islamists that did kill 130 but wounded more than 400.
“They were brutally killed by a small group of terrorists that had guns. They took their time and gunned them down one by one,” he said.
Trump then simulated the terror attack, in which he claimed the victims were gunned down one-by-one — as the crowd laughed and cheered.
“Boom! Come over here. Boom! Come here. Boom!” he said, using his fingers as an imaginary pistol and pretending to shoot.
“But if one employee or just one patron had a gun or if one person in this room had been there with a gun aimed at the opposite direction, the terrorists would have fled or been shot, and it would have been a whole different story. I mean, right?”
Seven terrorists were killed in the attack on the Bataclan theater and nearby sidewalk cafes.
Trump said the nation was still mourning the students and staffers killed in February’s Florida school massacre.
“Our entire nation was filled with shock and grief by
[We are] fighting to protect your Second Amendment. — President Trump in address to the NRA convention in Dallas
the monstrous attack on a high school in Parkland, Florida. We mourn for the victims and their families. Our heart breaks for every American that has suffered the horrors of the school shootings,” he said.
But he didn’t address stiffer background checks or raising the age limit for gun buyers, measures he paid lip service to after meeting with Parkland survivors but has not acted on.
Instead, he repeated his argument that teachers or other school staffers should be armed and school security increased and that people should be more proactive spotting potential shooters.
“Gun-free schools,” he said, are an open invitation to crazed killers.
He also said he would always protect the Second Amendment.
“You have an administration fighting to protect your Second Amendment, and we will protect your Second Amendment. Your Second Amendment rights are under siege, but they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president,” Trump said as the crowd shouted, “We love you,” and chanted, “USA! USA!”
“This is a record crowd. We like records,” he added.