Pres. Trump and Vice Pres. Pence take swipes at Democrats during NRA address.
President Trump speaking to the National Rifle Association, a group that made a multimillion investment in his campaign, declared his administration will not ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty – a treaty supported by the Obama administration that is aimed at regulating the international arms industry."The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty," Trump said in a speech at the NRA convention in Indianapolis.
Immediately, gun control advocates spoke out against the president's decision to back away from the treaty, which seeks to make it more difficult to sell weapons to countries that are under arms embargoes, often because of conflict. During his speech, Trump jumped from defending Second Amendment rights to building a wall to touting economic numbers.
"All was taking place at the highest levels in Washington, D.C. You’ve been watching, you've been seeing. You've been looking at things that you wouldn't have believed possible in our country. Corruption at the highest level a disgrace. Spying, surveillance. Trying for an overthrow. And we caught them. We caught them," he said.
Pence depicted the proposals as socialist efforts that threaten liberty and declared to a standing ovation that"America will never be a socialist country." One example of that expansion is NRA TV, where members can find shows on gun policy alongside criticism of the Green New Deal and Ocasio-Cortez. But in the past year alone, the NRA has faced staggering opposition. After the Feb. 14, 2018, deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students and supporters from Parkland, Florida, were among those asking other companies to sever their ties with the NRA.
"They're really the only lobbying group for the shooting public," Highsmith told ABC News ahead of Trump's speech. But, he added,"I think they need to try and rationalize how they spend their money and try to be more steadfast in the way they do business. I'd like to see them be more supportive of places like me -- how are they helping the average member."
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