A massacre at a school in Uwalde, Texas, left Keith Gellen “sick” but “you can not blame the gun” used to kill 21 people, said the retiree who gave the “present” at the annual conference of the NRA, the mighty lobby for gun ownership.
“We have always had weapons in this country,” said the 68-year-old former postman, who owns “more than fifty”.
The NRA conference is being held this year in Houston, Texas, in the same state where an 18-year-old killed 19 children and two elementary school teachers on Tuesday.
Keith Glenn went to the congress to hear former Republican President Donald Trump recite the names of the victims one by one on stage, before accusing the “hated” Democrats of demonizing its “peaceful” and “law-abiding” members. NRA holding weapons.
“It made me feel nauseous,” Keith Jellen said, referring to the Uwalde’s school massacre. But guns are not the problem, according to the 68-year-old, who wore camouflage shorts and a Trump-named hat. This tragedy could have been avoided if the adults at the school were armed, he claimed.
“The killers are not afraid of the judge, they are not afraid of the police,” he said, adding that “their potential victims should be afraid.”
The NRA conference, which ends on Sunday, is being held in a large conference center outside which protesters have been calling for a stricter legal framework for gun ownership. Among the protesters was the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, Beto O’Rourke, who criticized the Republicans for not taking measures to reduce gun ownership in the United States.
“You have blood on your hands” and “Weapons = Death”, wrote some of the protesters’ placards.
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