The Democratic National Committee is placing billboards highlighting the pro-gun comments made by Donald Trump outside the arena in Dallas where he will address members of the National Rifle Association on Saturday afternoon.
The billboards carry the former president's comments about gun violence in an effort to underscore his opposition to gun control measures.
One of them will feature Trump's comments in Iowa about a shooting in January in which a sixth-grade student was killed and seven others wounded.
"It's just horrible — so surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it. We have to move forward," he told the audience at his rally.
"From telling gun violence survivors to 'get over it' to blocking commonsense reforms that would save lives, Donald Trump has bent the knee to the NRA and gun lobby at every turn," DNC spokesperson Cameron Niven said in a statement to the Hill.
"Under his presidency, the murder rate skyrocketed after Donald Trump chose to roll back reforms that made it easier for criminals to carry guns," Niven added. "If he returns to the White House, Trump will continue to put the NRA and gun lobby ahead of the safety of American families."
The DNC said there is a world of difference in the way Trump and President Joe Biden approach gun safety.
"In stark contrast, President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken on the gun lobby by passing the strongest federal gun safety legislation in nearly thirty years," Niven wrote. "While Trump sides with the NRA over our kids' safety, voters will side with President Biden this November."
At a rally in Minnesota Friday night, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, accused Democrats of trying to take away people's guns.
"You know, it's an amazing thing. People that have guns, people that legitimately have guns, they love guns and they use guns for the right purpose, but they tend to vote very little and yet they have to vote for us," he said, theAssociated Press reported.
"There's nobody else to vote for because the Democrats want to take their guns away and they will take their guns away," he said.
