Posted on 06/14/2016 10:00:03 AM PDT by jazusamo
Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that more people would have died at the terrorist attack at a nightclub in Orlando over the weekend if club-goers had been armed and shot back at the lone gunman.
Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg Live at the Clinton Global Initiative, the former president was asked to respond to Donald Trump
’s claim that there would have been fewer deaths if those at the nightclub had been carrying 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 claims 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 after an hours-long stand-off with police, was armed with a handgun and an AR-15 rifle affixed with high-capacity magazines that permit the rapid firing of ammunition.
It was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
The tragedy has reignited 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 “assault weapons,” arguing that gun deaths dropped sharply after he signed a ban as president in the 1994. The act 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.”
Liberals have this magic power to foresee something that would never happen.
Insane Idiot. Must have been caused by syphillis?
He is too stupid to once again become a co-President.
“Jes’ stand there when a gunman comes into yer club an’ hope fer the best” - Bill Clinton (who travels with SS protection everywhere he goes for life)
Bill Clinton needs his victims to be unarmed so they will be easier to rape
Too bad Kathleen Wiley didn’t have a gun
But knowing that,,, would the dune coon have gone there in the first place? Maybe the attack wouldn’t have even happened.
You beat me to it!
Your logic is illogical.
Fox kills chicken ,,, it’s chickens fault .
He needs to stop snorting that coke.
Obama/Hillary/Bill - these folks are on the run and they are running straight into walls. This election is over.
He is perfectly sane, he is just trying to keep the democrat coalition from breaking apart. Hopefully tens of thousands of democrats will hear his words and snap out of their willing suspension of disbelief.
“Pump head” from the bypass complicated by vegetarianism.
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
The ravages of syphilis and the severe neuropsychiatric disorder, classified as an organic mental disorder and caused by the chronic meningoencephalitis that leads to cerebral atrophy in late-stage syphilis.
All that unprotected rape sex!
I think he may be suggesting that “Gays with Guns” is an unstable combination.
I think it’s AIDS.
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