Read more Photograph: Mark Humphrey/APMore than 70,000 NRA members were expected to attend the convention. After Parkland, Trump suggested in a public meeting that he would support gun control measures. “Some of you people are petrified of the NRA,” Trump said. After a private meeting a day later, Cox tweeted that the president and Vice-President Mike Pence did not in fact support gun control. Gun control laws were futile, Trump argued, pointing to a terror attack carried out with guns in Paris, in a country with strict gun laws.

Source: The Guardian May 04, 2018 18:30 UTC