GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Tuesday [11-7-17] that stricter gun laws would not have prevented the shooting in a Texas church that killed 26 people and that they could have driven the death toll into the hundreds, since the gunman was shot by an armed bystander.
Mr. Trump was asked during a joint news conference with the president of South Korea whether he would support ‘extreme vetting’ of gun buyers, comparable to the vetting his administration has sought to impose on visitors from some predominantly Muslim countries…
Mr. Trump did not address the fact that the Air Force has said it should have entered the assailant, Devin P. Kelley, into a federal database after he was court-martialed on domestic violence charges years ago. That would have prohibited him from legally buying the military-style rifle he used to kill 26 parishioners on Sunday inside a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex.”
-Mark Landler, “Trump Says Tougher Gun Laws Could’ve Worsened Texas Death Toll,” The New York Times online, Nov. 7, 2017