LGBT groups slam Donald Trump after Orlando shooting - CBS News

Donald Trump introduced himself Monday as a defender of the LGBT group, suggesting that his opponent, Hillary Cinton "might by no means be a pal of the homosexual group"

"Ask your self who actually is a greater good friend of girls or the LGBT group? Donald Trump with actions? Or Hillary Clinton together with her phrases?" Trump stated.

LGBT advocacy teams, nevertheless, do not consider the presumptive GOP presidential nominee because the "higher pal."

"Donald Trump has vowed to roll again marriage equality, move Kim Davis-style discrimination and permit governors from coast to coast to move legal guidelines like North Carolina's HB2," Jay Brown, spokesman for Human Rights Marketing campaign, advised Politico.

Within the wake of the attack on the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse Sunday, LGBT teams are specializing in gun violence prevention, they usually've already began working with gun security organizations.

"We're participating in -- and in some locations main -- vigils and advocacy actions throughout the nation to mobilize communities to behave to finish gun violence," Taylor Maxwell of Everytown for Gun Security informed Politico.

Equality California intends to look extra intently at gun management measures, the group's legislative supervisor stated.

"Equality California has been concerned with laws round hate crimes, ensuring that laws is carried out," Jo Michael informed Politico. "What will be totally different shifting ahead is being instantly concerned in supporting laws is particularly about gun management."

Trump has taken the other place on gun management, telling CNN Monday, "Should you had some weapons in that membership the night time that this passed off, when you had weapons on the opposite aspect, you would not have had the tragedy that you simply had."

And he additionally claimed Clinton helps abolishing the Second Modification.

"[Clinton] says the answer is to ban weapons. They tried that in France, which has among the many hardest gun legal guidelines anyplace on the planet and 130 individuals have been brutally murdered," Trump stated. "Her plan is to disarm law-abiding People, abolishing the Second Modification and leaving solely the dangerous guys and terrorists with weapons."

Clinton has by no means referred to as for an entire gun ban and has by no means stated she would abolish the Second Modification.