Posted on 10/04/2015 7:45:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican frontrunner says students and instructors should have been armed.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday channelled the 1970s action star Charles Bronson in defending second amendment rights in the aftermath of the shooting at an Oregon community college that left nine people and the shooter dead.
Mr Trump said in a rally in suburban Nashville that he has a handgun carry permit in New York. He added that any attacker would be “shocked” if he tried to assault him, because he would emulate Bronson in the vigilante film Death Wish.
Mr Trump criticized “gun-free zones”, saying that the Oregon shootings could have been limited if instructors or students at Umpqua Community College had been armed. He said better mental health care would help curb future shootings.
“Many states and many cities are closing their mental health facilities and closing them down, and they’re closing them because they don’t have the funding,” he said. “And we have to start looking much stronger into mental health.”
While Mr Trump warned that “no matter what you do, you will always have problems”, he argued that it doesn’t make sense to limit access to firearms.
“It’s not the guns,” Mr Trump said during his hour-long speech. “It’s the people, it’s these sick people.”
He also criticized president Barack Obama’s comments in response to the shootings as “divisive”.
Mr Trump’s positions on gun control have evolved significantly over the years. While he now touts the National Rifle Association line, he once backed the ban on assault weapons and longer waiting periods for gun purchases.
“I’m a very, very big second amendment person,” Mr Trump said on Saturday. “This is about self-defence, plain and simple.”
Mr Trump reminisced about Bronson’s Death Wish and got people in the crowd to shout out the title of the 1974 film in unison. In the movie, an affluent, liberal architect embarks on a vigilante mission after his life is shattered by thugs who kill his wife and rape his daughter.
“Today you can’t make that movie because it’s not politically correct,” Mr Trump said.
Saturday marked the second time Mr Trump had spoken in the Nashville area in five weeks. Tennessee is among the states holding their primaries on March 1st, also called Super Tuesday, and he noted that his comments brought a strong response from the overflow crowd in gun-friendly Tennessee.
“As soon as I mentioned it the place went absolutely wild,” he said.
Hey, I’ve been advocating Kersey Brigades a lot longer than Trump.
Great movie! I liked it so well, it became my CB handle and, years later, my Freeper name.
DUH! Of course schools need to have armed guards(And they also need to have open carry at these schools) gun free zones are killing fields, and that is what the left wants..the more people die at schools the more they can evoke their “Gun Control” BS which is just another word for confiscation
Liberals who are against this type of common sense need to be protected from their own foolishness.
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my wish is that that college gets sued for negligence for protecting the school with a can of macE!! For 100 million dollars. We must eradicate these gun-grabbers and marginalize them before their madness kill more children. Not only should College students be armed as mandatory mandatory training an shooting=required to graduate.
Training required 1000 rounds fired at 80 percent professioncy. and one shooting course with room entry and innocents on the room each semester. REAL TRAINING.
The next time a black racists wants to kill white people an Christians in that schooling I assure you his brain will be mostly out of his badly blown up skull. and he wont be separating Christian from moslems. Learn to kill for protection. It is a learned skill.
The image from the conclusion of the first Death Wish is classic. Love that film!
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Now i am thinking of your screen name song....
Trump can’t go wrong with that one.
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I guess Ireland has NO Charle Bronsons, himself a combat veteran.
Most of the professors feel these slaughters are good because they promote the concept that Guns are BAAAD which is an integral part of the curriculum in most schools. The profs hope that their own schools are not attacked, or at least they are not hurt in such an attack, but the odds are pretty slim that a particular school will be hit.
“Liberals who are against this type of common sense need to be protected from their own foolishness.”
First, you misspelled “liberal.” It is spelled “LIEberal, because they LIE!
Second, most of the anti-2nd Amendment LIEberals have hired armed bodyguards, or like DiFi, they carry.
Of course, since they are LIEberals, they LIE about it!
[You will no doubt recall that many years ago, DiFi made a big deal out of turning her pistol in at one of the “buyback shows” in San FRancisco — turns out she had bought a new one!]
There’s no need for a new law — Make any organization that puts a gun-free zone in place legally responsible for any deaths or injuries that occur there.
The current Government model, Law Enforcement ans SWAT teams showing up 5 minutes after the shooting starts, is a disaster and serves no one.
Law Enforcement does not HAVE to take a bullet for you
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