Outside Washington, people understand the horror of gun violence
and are increasingly unwilling to tolerate a Congress that is owned and operated by the gun lobby.”
A spokeswoman for the N. R.A.’s Institute for Legislative Action said that Mr. Murphy’s posts were a stunt.
Mr. Murphy then posted 11 messages showing the faces of shooting victims, many of whom were children,
including four of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
But during his wide-ranging 30-minute speech, Mr. Trump told members of an enthusiastic audience
that they were his “friends” and that he had come to deliver “good news.”
“The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end,” he said.
Speech With Photos of Shooting Victims -
By MATT STEVENSAPRIL 28, 2017
@realDonaldTrump about to take stage at NRA, to celebrate right of criminals to own guns, to glorify weapons that kill
Here’s my advice.
“It’s appalling that Chris Murphy exploits victims to push a gun control agenda even he admits
wouldn’t stop criminals from committing crimes,” said the spokeswoman, Jennifer Baker.
