Former President Donald Trump decried the “heinous massacre” in Uvalde during a speech at the NRA convention in Houston Friday and blasted those trying to advance gun control in the wake of it.
FILE - President Donald Trump shakes hands with NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre, has he arrives to speak to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, Friday, April 26, 2019, in Indianapolis. The National Rifle Association is going ahead with its annual meeting in Houston just days after the shooting massacre at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and 2 teachers dead.
“As always in the wake of these tragedies, the various gun control policies being pushed by the left would have done nothing to prevent the horror that took place,” he said. “If we as a nation were capable of legislating evil out of the hearts and minds of criminals who commit these heinous acts, we would have done it a long time ago,” he said.
Though public polling shows a vast majority of Americans back universal background checks for gun purchases, the polling is much less conclusive when Americans are asked whether the background checks would decrease the number of mass shootings, or when they answer questions about specific legislation.
“It’s never been about guns,” he said about places like Chicago that have tougher gun laws but are far more dangerous than Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott also canceled his speech in Houston and opted to send a video message expressing his pain for the grieving families.
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