“This is about self-defense, plain and simple.” “I’m a very, very big second amendment person,” Trump said on Saturday. While he now touts the National Rifle Association line, he once backed the ban on assault weapons and longer waiting periods for gun purchases. Trump’s positions on gun control have evolved significantly over the years. He also criticized President Barack Obama’s comments in response to the shootings as “divisive”. “It’s the people, it’s these sick people.” “It’s not the guns,” Trump said during his hourlong speech. While 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. “And we have to start looking much stronger into mental health.” “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. He said better mental health care would help curb future shootings. 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 added that any attacker would be “shocked” if he tried to assault him, because he would emulate Bronson in the vigilante film Death Wish. Trump said in a rally in suburban Nashville that he has a handgun carry permit in New York.
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