Trump calls deadly FSU shooting "terrible," suggests no new gun laws

White House effect to FSU shooting

White House effect to FSU shooting 02:54

President Trump said Thursday a shooting astatine Florida State University that killed 2 radical was "terrible" and a "shame," but suggested he's improbable to backmost immoderate caller weapon power measures — saying he's a "big advocator of the Second Amendment."

Asked by reporters if helium planned connected looking astatine stricter weapon laws successful the aftermath of the shooting, Mr. Trump said, "These things are terrible. But the weapon doesn't bash the shooting, the radical do." 

"As acold arsenic authorities is concerned, this has been going connected for a agelong time," Mr. Trump added. "I person an work to support the Second Amendment. I ran connected the Second Amendment, among galore different things, and I volition ever support the Second Amendment."

The president, whose superior residence is Palm Beach, Florida, besides said helium knows Florida State University and the country "very well."

Police say 2 radical were killed and six were injured connected the Florida State University field successful Tallahassee. The alleged gunman — identified arsenic 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner — was taken into custody aft being changeable by police, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Mr. Trump has generally opposed caller weapon power measures. He signed an enforcement bid successful aboriginal February ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to look into rolling backmost respective Biden-era weapon regulations, including stricter rules for firearms dealers. Mr. Trump did restrict "bump stocks" — devices that let guns to occurrence faster — successful his archetypal term, pursuing a deadly Las Vegas shooting wide shooting, though the Supreme Court struck down the rule past year.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives presently doesn't person a imperishable director. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll serves arsenic the agency's acting leader, taking over past week from FBI Director Kash Patel, who ran ATF and the FBI simultaneously.