If you take away everyone’s guns, mentally ill people will simply pick up knives, hammers, rocks, or get behind a wheel of a car and drive through crowds.
I use these examples because they happen frequently in other countries like China, Great Britain, and Russia. Just last week in China, a man attacked people in the street with a knife, stabbing scores of people, killing 50 before being tackled. In Great Britain, a terrorist armed with a meat clever killed an off-duty soldier right in the middle of the street. To blame guns as the cause of violent behavior and say that these violent attacks will stop if we make stricter gun laws is just ignorant.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Tennessee and had choice words toward 2nd amendment supporters and any liberals that doubted he was wavering on protecting the rights of gun owners:
“Let me tell you, if you had a couple teachers with guns in that room, you would have been a hell of a lot better off,” Trump said at a rally in Franklin, Tenn., on Saturday. “This is about self-defense, plain and simple.”
“In fact, I have a license to carry in New York — can you believe that? Nobody knows that,” Trump continued. “Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be shocked.”
After the event, the Republican frontrunner told reporters that he is a member of the National Rifle Association, and had consulted the group in developing his gun policy.
Trump makes it clear he’s “packing heat” in #NYC-Trump defends 2nd Amendment following Oregon shootings: http://t.co/gGB4KCspP4 via @AOL
— Skip Dillard (@mixcom) October 4, 2015
Trump also criticized former Florida governor Jeb Bush’s remarks about the Oregon shooting.
“He used the words ‘stuff happens,’ and I thought it was a very bad phrase to use,” Trump said, according to the Washington Post. “I was watching that and thought, ‘Wow, how does he use that phrase?’”
