Donald Trump addressed shooting as politicians urged action to improve gun controls – key US politics stories from Sunday at a glance
Donald Trump on Sunday paid his respects to two people killed and nine who were injured in a shooting at Brown University.
“Before we begin, I want to just pay my respects to the people, unfortunately two are no longer with us, Brown University, nine injured and two are looking down on us right now from Heaven,” the president told guests at a holiday reception at the White House.
“Brown University,” Trump added, “great school, really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world. Things can happen.”
Saturday’s violence at Brown brought the number of mass shootings in the US for the year to at least 389, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The attack reignited the US’s ongoing debate on whether the federal government should implement more substantial gun control in response to the perennially high numbers of mass shootings reported in the country.
