US President Donald Trump says that new gun laws would have made “no difference” in preventing the massacre at a church service in the state of Texas that left 26 people dead.

Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday in South Korea as part of his Asia tour, the president said more gun restrictions might have led to more casualties.

“If [the neighbor] didn’t have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, you would have had hundreds more dead. So that’s the way I feel about it. Not going to help,” Trump said.

At least 26 people died and 20 others were wounded Sunday when a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire at worshipers inside a church in Sutherland Springs, a small town near San Antonio.

“The city with the strongest gun laws in our nation is Chicago. And Chicago is a disaster. A total disaster,” he added.