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Former President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders rejected efforts to overhaul gun laws and mocked Democrats and activists calling for change Friday at the National Rifle Association's annual convention.
Trump acknowledged the political reality that gun rights advocates represent a core constituency for Republicans, and for the former President in particular. "You are the backbone of our movement," he said Friday.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem attacked advocates of gun safety legislation.
"Let me tell you the truth about the enemies of the Second Amendment. They are schooled in the ways of Marx and Lenin," she said.
And NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said that "if we as a nation were capable of legislating evil out of the hearts and minds of criminals who commit these heinous acts, we would have done it a long time ago."
The NRA did not even have the sense of decency to stop their convention/gun show this weekend our of respect for those killed 300 miles away in Uvalde.
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