Outside Washington, people understand the horror of gun violence<br />and are increasingly unwilling to tolerate a Congress that is owned and operated by the gun lobby.”<br />A spokeswoman for the N. R.A.’s Institute for Legislative Action said that Mr. Murphy’s posts were a stunt.<br />Mr. Murphy then posted 11 messages showing the faces of shooting victims, many of whom were children,<br />including four of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.<br />But during his wide-ranging 30-minute speech, Mr. Trump told members of an enthusiastic audience<br />that they were his “friends” and that he had come to deliver “good news.”<br />“The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end,” he said.<br />Speech With Photos of Shooting Victims -<br />By MATT STEVENSAPRIL 28, 2017<br />@realDonaldTrump about to take stage at NRA, to celebrate right of criminals to own guns, to glorify weapons that kill<br />Here’s my advice.<br />“It’s appalling that Chris Murphy exploits victims to push a gun control agenda even he admits<br />wouldn’t stop criminals from committing crimes,” said the spokeswoman, Jennifer Baker.
