Gun Lunatic Donald Trump’s NRA speech causes anger in U.K., France

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Trauma surgeons in London said U.S. President Donald Trump had
missed the point after he linked a wave of knife crime in the
British capital to a ban on handguns.

Anger also flared in France after Trump, in a speech to the
National Rifle Association (NRA), used his hands in a gesture to
mimic the shooting of victims in Paris in 2015.

Trump, who is due to visit Britain on July 13, told members of the
NRA in Dallas, Texas on Friday that a “once very prestigious”
London hospital, which he did not name, had become overwhelmed
with victims of knife attacks.

London suffered a spike in knife crime in the early part of this
year, and the total number of murders during February and March
exceeded that in New York.

Last month, trauma surgeon Martin Griffiths told the BBC that some
of his colleagues had likened the Royal London Hospital in east
London where he works to the former British military base Camp
Bastion in Afghanistan.

“Some of my military colleagues have described their practice here
as being similar to being at Bastion,” he said. “About a quarter
of what we see in our practice is knife and gun injury. And it’s
now we’re doing major life-saving cases on a daily basis.”

But on Saturday he implied Trump had drawn the wrong conclusion
from his remarks, saying on Twitter that he would be happy to
invite Trump to his “prestigious” hospital to discuss London’s
efforts to reduce violence.

Griffiths posted his comment next to an animation of a stick
figure with the phrase “The Point” flying over its head, and also
linked to a statement on the hospital’s website by a fellow trauma
surgeon, Karim Brohi.

“There is more we can all do to combat this violence, but to
suggest guns are part of the solution is ridiculous. Gunshot
wounds are at least twice as lethal as knife injuries and more
difficult to repair,” Brohi said in the statement on Saturday.

Britain’s government effectively banned handgun ownership in
England, Scotland and Wales after a school shooting in 1996.

Diane Abbott, the opposition Labour Party’s spokeswoman for home
affairs, said she could “hardly see how violent crime in London
justifies the licensing of guns in the U.S..”

Trump’s comments have caused upset before in Britain, which views
itself as the United States’ closest ally. Relations with Prime
Minister Theresa May cooled last year after she criticized him for
retweeting anti-Islam videos by a British far-right group.

Trump’s NRA speech also drew anger in France on Saturday, after
the U.S. president, using his hand in a gun gesture, acted out how
a gunman had killed hostages one by one during an attack in Paris
in November 2015.


Trump said a civilian could have stopped the massacre at the
Bataclan concert hall, where 90 of the 130 victims of the attack
died, had they had a gun.

Former French president Francois Hollande, who was head of state
at the time, said on Twitter that Trump’s comments and antics were
“shameful” and “obscene.”

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said Trump’s portrayal of the 2015
attacks was “contemptuous and unworthy.”