Trump boasts about protecting Second Amendment – hours after Kansas City parade shooting

Donald Trump boasted that he did “nothing” to alter the Second Amendment during his time as president – just hours after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade left one person dead and dozens more injured.

Horror unfolded on Wednesday when gunfire broke out close to Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri.

Police said that 22 were shot including one woman – local radio DJ Lisa Lopez -Galvan – who died from her injuries. Nine children were among those treated for gunshot wounds.

Three individuals, who have not been named, were detained by police for questioning.

Not long after the shooting, Mr Trump appeared at his latest campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday evening – where he was campaigning ahead of the Palmetto State’s upcoming primary on 24 February.

“Nobody took care of our Second Amendment, during that four-year period nothing happened with our Second Amendment,” Mr Trump told his supporters.

He added: “We will protect innocent life and we will restore free speech.”

Some of the deadliest mass shootings in American history took place during Mr Trump’s tenure in the White House from 2017 to 2021.

These included the Las Vegas shooting of 1 October 2017 in which 60 people were killed and 867 injured, the Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church shooting in Texas on 5 November 2017 in which 26 people were shot dead and 22 wounded, the El Paso Walmart shooting on 3 August 2019 in which 23 people were killed and another 23 injured and the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018 in which 17 people were shot dead and 17 injured.

The Las Vegas massacre did lead to a ban on the sale of bump stocks – rifle modifiers that enabled