Brits expressed astonishment Saturday after President Donald Trump blasted London knife fights in his speech boosting gun ownership at the National Rifle Association convention. “To suggest guns are part of the solution is ridiculous,” said surgeon Karim Brohi of the Royal London Hospital in a statement. “Gunshot wounds are at least twice as lethal as knife injuries and more difficult to repair.”Britain effectively banned handgun ownership after a 1996 school shooting. “Trump lies on everything,” former British justice secretary Charlie Falconer said before contrasting the nations’ murder rates. “Trump makes Londoners dislike him more, and the U.S. dislike London more,” he told The Guardian.

Source: Huffington Post May 06, 2018 01:52 UTC