The head of America’s powerful gun lobby has blasted gun rights opponents for exploiting last week’s deadly Florida high shooting to expand gun control and curb the gun violence epidemic in the US.
National Rifle Association (NRA) chief Wayne LaPierre on Thursday dismissed street protests and mounting demands to tighten America’s permissive gun laws.
“They hate the NRA. They hate the Second Amendment. They hate individual freedom,” LaPierre said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, near the nation’s capital.
Striking a defiant tone in his first public comments since the mass shooting in Florida, he also accused the gun control advocates of hating individual freedom.
LaPierre blamed school security, families, and the FBI for the tragedy, urging more armed security in education centers. His suggestion was similar to what US President Donald Trump had given for solving the issue.
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