The Senate’s top Democrat has urged Donald Trump to follow his instinct and help push through gun control measures after the National Rifle Association (NRA) suggested that the President did not actually want gun control.
Democratic members of Congress and the powerful gun-rights organisation are competing for the President’s support on controversial gun issues that have once again become a national talking point in the wake of a mass shooting in Florida last month.
“President Trump should go with his instincts, not the clarion and destructive call of the NRA,” Mr Schumer said in a statement. “He knows instinctively that this is the right thing to do both substantively, because it will save tens of thousands of lives, and politically, because over three quarters of the American people support it.”
It is unusual for any Democrat to call on the impulsive President to follow his instincts, with the party often lamenting the fact that he issues statements on events – usually via Twitter - seemingly without much forethought.
Source : Yahoo
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