Donald Trump - a man not famed for his modesty or lack of bravado - has claimed that he would have run in to the Florida school assaulted by a gunman, even if he was not armed.
As students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School prepare to return to school this week after an attack that left 17 pupils and teachers dead, the President told a meeting of the nation’s governors: “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”
In the aftermath of the shooting two weeks at the school in Parkland, there has been a fierce debate on how to reduce or end the number of incidents, which so frequently bring tragedy to US communities.
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Inspired by the students from the school that was attacked, campaigners have been calling for Mr Trump and the Republicans to act swiftly to regulate and control access to guns. The students from the high school have led a powerful and impassioned campaign to demand that they be the last pupils in America to suffer a mass shootings.
The National Rifle Assocation (NRA), the powerful gun rights lobbying group which spent $30m helping get Mr Trump elected in 2016, has said there should be no new legislation that bans weapons - not even assault rifles or the bump stock device that can turn allow someone to fire a semi-automatic weapon as if it is fully automatic.
Source: Independent
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