Trump stops short of full endorsement of gun proposals
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Washington: US President Donald Trump has stopped short of a full-throated endorsement of any legislative proposals to tighten gun restrictions while legislators insist that the fate of any changes lies in the President’s hands.
While US Senate leaders explored the possibility of passing a modest improvement to the national background-check system for firearm buyers, House action was uncertain, and Trump again turned attention away from guns on Monday (local time) and toward the various security breakdowns that preceded the Valentine’s Day rampage inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead.
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Hosting dozens of governors at the White House on Monday, Trump reserved his harshest criticism for a local sheriff’s deputy who remained outside the school while Nikolas Cruz, the alleged shooter, targeted his former classmates and faculty members.
“You don’t know until you test it, but I think – I’d really believe I’d run into [the school], even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump said, telling the assembled governors that he thought they, too, would have rushed inside.
He did not, however, throw his support squarely behind any particular legislative proposal, including measures he previously floated that would raise the minimum purchase age for rifles, mandate comprehensive background checks for gun buyers and ban “bump stocks,” which allow widely-available semiautomatic rifles to fire like fully automatic guns.
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