Trump seeks to clarify comments on guns at Orlando nightclub

There was a security guard at Pulse the night of the shooting – who exchanged fire with the gunman before retreating – but Trump’s comments implied that club goers, many of whom had likely been drinking, should also have been armed, so that they could have repelled the shooter with deadly force.

The about-face came after a pair of top NRA officials on Sunday morning took the unusual step of condemning Trump’s initial comments.

“When I said that if, within the Orlando club, you had some people with guns, I was obviously talking about additional guards or employees”.

There is no doubt, especially with that “take your guns away” and “those great people that were in the club” remarks that Trump is suggesting that people who plan to go out drinking should be carrying loaded weapons. “But I will tell you this”.

The presumptive G.O.P. nominee declared to a Houston crowd on Friday that attendees of Pulse, the gay nightclub that became the site of the deadliest shooting in modern US history last week, should have been carrying weapons.

For some measures, CNN found overwhelming support: background check on anyone attempting to purchase a gun (92% favor to 8% oppose); preventing certain people, such as convicted felons or people with mental health problems, from owning guns (87% to 12%); preventing people who are on the USA government’s Terrorist Watchlist or no-fly list from owning guns (85% to 14%). And then we talk about the issue again, with the same result. And it really goes counter to the NRA’s invocation of the mythical “responsible gun owner” to start telling people to get all liquored up before they start shooting off guns.

He says of his group, the Veterans Coalition for Common Sense, “We are alarmed that a known or suspected terrorist can go to a federally licensed firearms dealer where background checks are conducted, pass that background check, legally purchase a firearm and walk out the door”. “It also defies the law”, Cox said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“It sounded like there were no guns”.

USA lawmakers who back any measures on gun control will “pay a price for it”, the chief lobbyist for the country’s National Rifle Association threatened Sunday as he slammed those who would blame the organization for the country’s recent attack against the LGBT community in Orlando.

Sixteen of the protesters were arrested in an action created to confront NRA lobbyists on their home turf and force them to come face-to-face with the massive death toll caused by decades of their relentless pressure on government officials to put military-grade weapons in the hands of civilians. Because they are coming”, said NRA vice-president Wayne Robert LaPierre, calling for more guns in places such as schools, malls and “other vulnerable places.

“I don’t think you should have firearms where people are drinking”, La Pierre said. We have a responsibility to do more to keep guns out of the wrong hands.