 Trump's receptiveness to those ideas dismayed the National Rifle Association, but it looked like a reversion to his actual opinions. In his 2000 book, President Trump, then Mr. Trump, in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve, he staked out a middle ground on gun control between the extremes of the two major political parties. Quote, Democrats want to confiscate all guns, which is a dumb idea, because only the law-abiding citizens were turning their guns, and the bad guys would be the only ones left armed. Trump wrote...