The lead guitarist of a country music band playing Route 91 Harvest festival, where a gunman killed 59 people on Sunday night, has said the horrific experience of the attack changed his views on gun laws in America.
“I’ve been a proponent of the [second] amendment my entire life,” Caleb Keeter posted on Twitter. “Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was.”
In the aftermath of the attack, gun control advocates are calling for a ban on “bump stocks”, the largely unregulated novelty devices which Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock may have used to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that mimics the continuous fire of a fully automatic weapon.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Donald Trump suggested that the time for a national debate on guns would come at some point in the future. When asked about legislation winding its way through Congress that would make it easier for people to buy gun silencers, Trump said: “We’ll talk about that later.”
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