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Posted on 06/14/2016 8:38:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that more people would have died in the terrorist attack at a nightclub in Orlando over the weekend if clubgoers had been armed and shot back at the lone gunman.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, the former president was asked to respond to Donald Trump’s claim that fewer people would have died at the club if they had firearms. “Did you see how dark it was?” Clinton said. “It’s likely that more people would have been killed.”
A gunman of Afghan descent, who claimed to have been inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, killed 49 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Omar Mateen, who was killed during a standoff with police, was armed with a handgun and an AR-15 rifle with high-capacity magazines.
It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history and the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
The tragedy has reignited a debate over the nation’s gun, immigration and intelligence gathering laws, as well as political correctness and the nature of Islam.
Clinton on Tuesday pushed for a ban on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15, arguing that gun deaths dropped sharply after he signed such a ban as president in 1994. That law expired in 2004.
“It worked pretty well,” Clinton said of the ban. “Then when it was allowed to expire. For a while we didn’t seem to have uptick in crime, but look at what happened with big weapons at Sandy Hook and Aurora, Colorado and most recently in Orlando and San Bernardino, California.”
“It’s clear that if you’re firing a lot of ammunition in a short amount of time with a weapon designed to kill, more people will die than if you’re stuck with a pistol,” Clinton continued. “If [the Orlando shooter] just had a pistol, nobody believes he could have killed 49 people.”
Bubba is showing signs of Alzheimer’s
I’m sure that Bill prefers his victims to be unarmed.
You don’t arm drinking patrons, you stooge!
You provide armed security.
The perps like this loser, see that and move on.
Get it?
With what? A purse and poppers?
Oh.....
Post #4 is aimed at Bill not you!
Willie is a draft dodger. What the hell would that senile old idiot know about arming yourself to stay alive in Obonzo’s fundamentally deformed Amerika?
Sure Bill and more women are raped who are carrying too.
Pray America wakes
Yeah, cowering and dying worked out for the best.
It was dark. That’s his answer. Really?
Syphilis has a real bit on this old sex pervert.
Care to test that theory on disarming the secret service for a week or two?
One man in the club was armed and returned fire forcing the moho into the bathroom where he had a more limited field of fire and thereby surely prevented more from being killed.
“More people would have died if clubgoers were armed”
He says, surrounded by his armed bodyguards.
Keep digging Bill!
Most Democrats I know make Bill’s stupid argument in the wake of mass shootings, every time. It HAS to be deep-down indoctrination. No one sane says a gun in a good guy’s hand in an incident like this isn’t a real chance to save lives.
I think they are trying to milk this into gun control, while complaining of Trump’s “politicization”.
You see, we got the power to turn back time
Let’s go get a better candidate than McSlime
And while we’re at, let’s convict Clinton, too
As a consequence of the impeachment that he went through
See? That’s the power to turn back time
What is it about DT that brings out the utter stupidity of the Clintons and Obama (and other progs)?
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