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.”
Using this “logic” disarm all cops.
This pervert criminal and his accomplise Always have armed security always.
Otherwise some jelous husband would surely have beaten this a-hole senseless more than onece and deservedly so.
This pervert criminal and his accomplise Always have armed security always.
Otherwise some jelous husband would surely have beaten this a-hole senseless more than onece and deservedly so.
Ballistics testing isn’t done. Police admit they don’t know if they killed any club goers in their raid.
Too bad Janita broderick didn’t have a gun.
...if there had been even more terrorists, and all would be here by invitation from the DNC.
To repeat, bomb or no bomb, you don't grab an active shooter's weapon, you shoot him. In this case in the head. Irrelevant however since no one but the guard was armed. And he died first.
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