The conference came on the heels of mass shootings across the nation.
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The annual conference came on the heels of mass shootings in Nashville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky. Between the two massacres, 11 people died.
Top Republican speakers at the NRA conference, meanwhile, cited scripture and lauded the Second Amendment.
“This is not a gun problem,” former President Donald J. Trump said in his speech at the meeting, according to The New York Times.
“Stop trampling on the God-given rights of the American people every time tragedy happens,” former Vice President Mike Pence said in his speech, per the Times.
