Anti-gun activists censure Trump’s policies before his tower
Anti-gun activists have staged a die-in protest in front of the Trump Tower to censure Donald Trump’s campaign for the 2016 presidential election.
Trump had said he could still run even if he shot someone on the Fifth Avenue in New York, angering the country’s anti-gun activists, who took to the avenue Wednesday to lie down on the sidewalk in front of his tower.
The protesters covered themselves with white sheets and stayed in that position in silence for a few minutes during the protest, organized by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Later, the demonstrators shouted “90 a day, no more, no way!” in reference to the number of Americans killed on a daily basis.
“Donald Trump made a ludicrous statement when he said that I can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue, shoot somebody, and still get votes. I'm a victim of gun violence. I've actually been shot and I lost a friend," a protester told New York Daily News.
Pro-Trump riot
The protest was held a day after the real estate mogul won three of five Republican presidential primaries, which pushed him further close to nomination by the Republican Party, many of whose members oppose him.
Trump warned Wednesday that if he is not “automatically” nominated by the Republican Party, his supporters would start a riot.
He told CNN that if he was to attend the July convention with more delegates than any others’ and still lose the nomination, “I think you’d have riots.”
“I’m representing a tremendous — many, many millions of people — in many cases, first-time voters. These are people that haven’t voted because they never believed in the system,” he said. “Now, if you disenfranchise those people and you say, ‘Well, I’m sorry, but you’re 100 votes short, even though the next one is 500 votes short,’ I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before. I think bad things would happen, I really do. I believe that. I wouldn’t lead it but I think bad things would happen.”
Analysts say Trump could still fail to win the majority of delegates needed through the primaries.
The billionaire businessman is notorious for offensive remarks against Muslims and other minorities in America.
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