WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Donald Trump and America’s powerful gun lobby on Thursday (Friday in Manila) cast citizens with weapons as a solution to shootings, as it emerged an armed deputy was on campus during a deadly Florida rampage but failed to act.

National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre hit back at what he called “the shameful politicization of tragedy” and repeated the organization’s position that “to stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun,” while Trump made a controversial call to arm teachers.

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