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Trump was asking Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey and West...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePresident Donald Trump is suggesting members of Congress are \"afraid of the NRA\" as he convenes a group of lawmakers to address the deadly Florida school shooting. \u003cbr/\u003e              Trump was asking Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin if their 2013 plan to expand background checks included raising the minimum age for young people to buy an assault weapon. Toomey said it doesn't, prompting Trump to respond, \"you're afraid of the NRA.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              Trump says he knows that the National Rifle Association is opposed to raising the minimum age to 21 for people to buy assault weapons. But he says he's \"going to give it very serious consideration.\"\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 28 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Cornyn, (R) Texas: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We've talked about the bump stock issue that Senator Feinstein, I know, cares passionately about.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"And I'm going to write that out. Because we can do that with an executive order. I'm going to write the bump stock - essentially, write it out. So you won't have to worry about bump stock. Shortly, that'll be gone. We can focus on other things. Frankly, I don't even know if it would be good in this bill. It's nicer to have a separate piece of paper where it's gone and we'll that done pretty quickly, they're working on it right now, the lawyers.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Murphy, (D) Connecticut: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"There is no other issue out there in the American public today like background checks - 97 percent of Americans want universal background checks. In states that have universal background checks, there are 35 percent less gun murders than in states that don't have them. And yet, we can't get it done. There's nothing else like that, where it works, people want it and we can't do it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) President Donald Trump: \"But you have a different president now. You went through a lot of presidents and you didn't get it done. You have a different president, and I think maybe you have a different attitude, too. I think people want to get it done.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Murphy, (D) Connecticut: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Well listen, in the end, Mr. President, the reason that nothing has gotten done here is because the gun lobby has had a veto power over any legislation that comes before Congress. I wish that wasn't the case, but that is. And if all we end up doing is the stuff that the gun industry supports, then this just isn't worth it. We're not going to make a difference and so I'm glad that you sat down with the NRA, but we will get 60 votes on a bill that looks like the Manchin-Toomey compromise on background checks, Mr. President, if you support it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Joe Manchin, (D) West Virginia: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"In all fairness, this is a bill that basically, with your support, it would pass. It would pass. And we think it basically takes commercial sales, any commercial trans-\"\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"(inaudible) to that bill if we use that as a base? You could add some of the things that are going to be said in the room or you may not want to, but there are going to be things that are going to be said today that I think will be, you know, in addition to yours, John, which, you can add almost everything, because you know what that involves. I think it would be a very positive thing, in terms of background checks.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'll tell you this, you have to have very strong provisions for the mentally ill. Now a lot of people are saying, oh I shouldn't be saying that. I'll tell you what - I don't want mentally ill people to be having guns.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Marco Rubio, (R) Florida: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The best way to prevent these is to stop it before it even starts. That doesn't mean we shouldn't harden schools, that doesn't mean we shouldn't have a debate on some other issues. But the best thing that can happen is know who these people are and get on them and get them the services they need and deny them the right to buy any gun.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Somebody can buy a handgun at 21. Now this is not a popular thing to say, in terms of the NRA. But I'm saying it anyway, I'm going to just have to say it. But you can't buy - I mean, think of it: you can buy a handgun, you can't buy one - you have to wait til you're 21. But you can buy the kind of weapon used in the school shooting at 18. I think it's something you have to think about.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D) California: \"Would you sign that?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump: \"So... I'll tell you what, I'm going to give it a lot of consideration. And I'm the one bringing it up. A lot of people don't even want to bring it up, because they're afraid to bring it up.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"But I would give very serious thought to it. I can say that the NRA is opposed to it. And I'm a fan of the NRA. I mean, there's no bigger fan, I'm a big fan of the NRA, they'll want to do it. These are great people, these are great patriots, they love our country. But that doesn't mean we have to agree on everything. It doesn't make sense that I have to wait til I'm 21 to get a handgun. I can get this weapon at 18. I don't know. So I was just curious as to what you did in your bill... you don't address it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. Pat Toomey, (R) Pennsylvania (off-screen): \"We didn't address it, Mr. President. Look I think we...\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) President Donald Trump: \"You know why? Because you're afraid of the NRA.\" (laughs)\u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. Joe Manchin, (D) West Virginia: \"It wasn't an issue back then - five years ago. It never came up.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) President Donald Trump: \"It's a big issue right now. A lot of people are talking about it. 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