At Univision’s town-hall-style event Wednesday, 33-year-old Jes ús Gonz ález asked Republican governmental candidate Donald Trump: “Could you explain your gun control policy to the parents of the victims of school shootings?”
Trump’s reaction to those moms and dads: They’re much better off in a nation with even more weapons.
“We have a Second Amendment and right to bear arms, essentially,” Trump claimed. “And I’m very strongly an advocate of that — I think you need that. I think that if you ever tried to get rid of it, you wouldn’t be able to do it. You wouldn’t be able to take away the guns, because people need that for security. They need it for entertainment, and for sport and other things — but they also, in many cases, need it for protection.”
Trump echoed former National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre’s famous argument that if even more “good people” have weapons, it aids maintain criminal activity down.
“You want to have a lot of good people have [guns],” the previous head of state claimed. “But if we didn’t have that, you would see a crime rate that’s crazy.”
Southern and Mountain West states with even more liberal weapon regulations often tend to have greater fatality prices from weapon physical violence than those of the Northeast or California, where weapon limitations are tighter, according to research from the Center for Gun Violence Solutions atJohns Hopkins University
Trump did not state institution capturings in his two-minute reaction, yet he continuously charged his Democratic competitor, Vice President Kamala Harris, of wishing to take Americans’ weapons away.
“She wants to take everybody’s gun away, you know she’s always wanted that,” Trump claimed. “That’s because, uh, that’s what she wants. She wants to take everybody’s gun. You know who will never give their guns up? The bad guy. The bad guy’s not giving up the guns. So that’s what we have. We want safety, we want security, but you have to still adhere to the Second Amendment.”
Harris said at their only presidential debate last month that both she and her operating friend,Minnesota Gov Tim Walz, are weapon proprietors and do not intend to take weapons far from obedient weapon proprietors.
Both the Harris campaign and weapon radicals confiscated on Trump’s statements for focusing on weapon proprietors’ “entertainment” over the security of schoolchildren.
“What a disgusting, soulless answer,” tweeted California Gov Gavin Newsom, a Harris ally.
Q: Could you discuss your weapon control plan to the moms and dads of the targets of institution capturings?
Donald Trump: You require weapons. You require them for amusement, for sporting activities, and various other points.
What a revolting, feral response.pic.twitter.com/Vp54wL32Mo
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) October 17, 2024
“Yesterday, Former President Trump made clear again that he only cares about making his gun lobby friends rich, not the children being killed every single day in this country,” Vanessa Gonzalez, vice head of state of federal government and political events at Giffords Law Center, which concentrates on weapon physical violence concerns, created in a declaration. “He has no plan, or even a concept of one, to stop this public health crisis.”
Trump, a previous weapon proprietor, can no longer legally own firearms due to the fact that he has actually been founded guilty of a felony.
