US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has described London as “like a war zone” while simultaneously advocating for the US right to bear arms at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Texas.
Describing a hospital in the British capital, the president told the crowd of gun enthusiasts in Dallas that knife crime in the area has become prolific.
“A once very prestigious hospital right in the middle is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds.
“They don’t have guns — they have knives. They say it’s as bad as a military war zone hospital. Knives, knives, knives.”
Camera IconPresident Donald Trump speaks at the NRA Leadership Forum during the NRA Annual Meeting.Picture: AFP
The president also declared that the right to bear arms in the US was “under siege”, however, he assured the tens of thousands of attendees that they had an administration in Washington that was “fighting to protect your Second Amendment”.
He pledged to the cheering crowd that those rights “will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president”. Trump did not elaborate on how the Second Amendment was under siege.
The president was addressing the NRA gathering nearly three months after a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. He was speaking at the event for the fourth year in a row.
Camera IconAttendees sing the National Anthem at the NRA convention.Picture: AFP
He temporarily strayed from the group’s strong opposition to tougher gun controls after the school shooting — only to rapidly return to the fold.
Last year, he became the first sitting president to appear in more than 30 years, declaring that the “assault” on the Second Amendment had ended. But this year’s speech in Dallas came as the issue of gun
