"The gun laws have nothing to do with this. This is about mental illness"
Donald Trump argued Sunday that tighter gun laws would not help prevent mass shootings, saying that people with mental illness will always “slip through the cracks,” regardless of restrictions on firearms possession.
“No matter what you do, you’re going to have difficulties,” Trump told ABC’s “This Week.” “The gun laws have nothing to do with this. This is about mental illness … You’re always going to have difficulties no matter how tight you run it.”
The debate over gun control was reignited this week after a gunman in Roseburg, Ore., killed nine people at a community college, then fatally shot himself. The episode is the latest in a series of mass shootings affecting towns around the United States, and it prompted Democrats to call for stricter regulations.
Trump responded Sunday with an argument in favor of more guns, saying that “fewer people would have died” in Oregon if guns had been permitted on the campus targeted by the shooter.
“I see it was a gun-free zone,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And you were not allowed to have guns at all in that particular area. And you could make the case that it would have been a lot better had people had guns because they had something to fire back.”
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Gee he's right again.
ReplyDeleteAnd you could make the case that it would have been a lot better had people had guns because they had something to fire back.”
ReplyDeleteYep I guess that is why war zones are such safe places to be.
He's right. Stricter gun laws will no more cut down on gun violence, then stricter drug laws cut down on illegal drug sales and use.
ReplyDelete"Yep I guess that is why war zones are such safe places to be."
ReplyDeleteDon't be so ridiculous. No rational person can compare a war zone to a school, a movie theater, mall, restaurant, etc.
If you were in a 'war zone' 10:49 wouldn't you prefer to be armed?
ReplyDeleteWhy does no one want to talk about how most of these shooters got their gun legal. They followed the law, then weeks later went on a shooting spree. Law after law don't and won't ever stop a nutcase from killing if they are hell bent on doing it. If not a gun, then a pressure cooker bomb, or truck full of fertilizer, or jet plane.
ReplyDeleteMore people with guns would stop crime not enhance it. Just make it simple, if you know State police sit with their laser at this place, you don't speed there. So if you know they may have a gun, you don't rob them. That simple. Remember KISS.
ReplyDelete10:49 - you are a moron! I would much rather be in a war zone than the riot areas in Baltimore or Ferguson! I'll have protective gear on and know I can shoot whatever tries to take me on.
ReplyDelete11:46 - that's too easy for them - they'll never get it!
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