President Donald Trump argued Tuesday morning that tougher restrictions on buying guns could have actually made the Sunday shooting in Texas deadlier, given that a bystander with a gun helped stop the shooter.
During a press conference in South Korea, Trump was asked if he would support increased “vetting” for those looking to purchase a gun in the wake of the Texas shooting that left 26 people dead, including several children. The President suggested it may not be an “appropriate question” given that he is in South Korea but responded anyway.
“If you did what you are suggesting it would have made no difference three days ago. And you might not have had that very brave person who happened to have a gun or a rifle in his truck go out and shoot him and hit him and neutralize him,” Trump said. “And I can only say this, if he 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.”
The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, on Sunday opened fire in a Texas church, killing 26 and wounding about 20 others. After leaving the church, Kelley was confronted by a nearby resident with a gun, police said. He was found dead with three gunshot wounds, including at least one self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
NEWS FLASH: Trump says something idiotic. Up is down, the earth is flat, guns make us safer, the usual Republican oxymorons.
Then millions of Trump-woshipping drone repeat that something idiotic, praising it as the wisdom of the ages
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Good article in the Times today.
¨The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is the astronomical number of its guns.¨
The graph shows just how ¨special¨ we are.
the usual Republican
oxymoronsoxymoransOnly in your dystopian TrumpWorld, Donnie! Not. My. President!
Of course the status quo is perfect, and will be perfecter if it’s much worse. It’s that way with everything. So if you voted for this self-dealing lummox because he would “shake things up” in his brash, no-prisoners way, then kindly go to the bathroom, take a long look in the mirror, and then punch yourself in the face.