Donald Trump says London hospital is like ‘war zone’ because of knife crime
At NRA event, Trump defends gun ownership by referring to ‘blood all over the floors’ at unnamed London hospital
By: David Smith The Guardian. UK
Trump at NRA Convention 2018
Donald Trump on Friday (May 4, 2018), fuelled fears of a knife crime epidemic in London by comparing a hospital in the city to “a war zone”, with blood all over the floors.
The US president, addressing the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, made the inflammatory comments two months before he is due to make his first visit to the UK.
Using a familiar conservative argument to defend gun ownership, Trump asked sarcastically whether vans, trucks and cars, which have been used by terrorists, should be banned. Then he turned to knives. READ MORE
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What? Is he saying that guns shed less blood than knife wounds?