{"id":333966,"date":"2017-11-07T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-dismisses-calls-for-tougher-gun-laws-in-us\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:50:35","slug":"presstv-trump-dismisses-calls-for-tougher-gun-laws-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-dismisses-calls-for-tougher-gun-laws-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump dismisses calls for tougher gun laws in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump says that new gun laws would have made &#8220;no difference&#8221; in preventing the massacre at a church service in the state of Texas that left 26 people dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday in South Korea as part of his Asia tour, the president said more gun restrictions might have led to more casualties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf [the neighbor] didn\u2019t have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, you would have had hundreds more dead.\u00a0So that&#8217;s the way I feel about it. Not going to help,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>At least 26 people died and 20 others were wounded Sunday when a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire at worshipers inside a church in Sutherland Springs, a small town near San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city with the strongest gun laws in our nation is Chicago. And Chicago is a disaster. A total disaster,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking a day earlier in Tokyo, Japan, Trump insisted the latest gun violence tragedy cannot be blamed on firearms and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/07\/541352\/Trump-says-tougher-gun-laws-would-have-made-Texas-church-shooting-worse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump says that new gun laws would have made &#8220;no difference&#8221; in preventing the massacre at a church service in the state of Texas that left 26 people dead. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday in South Korea as part of his Asia tour, the president said more gun restrictions might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}