President Trump speaks about the shooting in Texas during an event with U.S. and Japanese business leaders at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Tokyo.
President Donald Trump still doesn’t support additional gun-control measures after a gunman killed 26 people at a small church in Texas, and on Tuesday he suggested added restrictions might even exacerbate the problem.
Trump, who praised an armed civilian who shot the gunman, rebuffed suggestions from a reporter at a news conference in South Korea that “extreme vetting” for prospective gun owners could help.
He said: “If you did what you’re suggesting, there would have been no difference three days ago,” referring to the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Trump then shifted to talking about Stephen Willeford, a man who lived near the church and, as he later told reporters, came out of his home armed after his daughter heard gunshots. He exchanged fire with the gunman after the shooter left the church, where at least 46 people had already been shot. After a high-speed car chase, the gunman was found dead in his car; officials said he had shot himself in the head.
“I can only say this. If [Willeford] didn’t have a gun, instead of 26 dead, you would have had hundreds more dead,” Trump said. “So that’s the way I feel about it, not going to help.”
On Monday, Trump blamed the shooting on “mental health,” calling the gunman a “deranged individual” and dismissing the idea that the shooting was a “guns issue.”
“This is a mental-health issue at the highest level, and it’s very very sad,” Trump said. “That’s the way I view it.”
The US has more mass shootings than any other developed country and looser gun-control laws than other nations with similar demographics.
The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, should not have been able to buy a gun because of a conviction equivalent to a felony during his time with the US Air Force, but the existing gun-control laws failed to work as the Pentagon had not released Kelley’s military record to background-checking agencies.
Kelley reportedly was able to purchase four guns after being convicted of assaulting his wife and child. Kelley, who remarried, killed the grandmother of his second wife in Sunday’s attack at the church.
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Same guy who supported red flag laws lol
I don't like him but he is right about that though we should increase our background check System much tighter and harder
Trump speaks facts i am a gun owner he makes sence to me
China and USA mmmm look now corona19
God bless texas and God Bless trump
If they make guns illegal people are still going to buy them and it’s gonna make it harder for people who actually want it for self defense and for the many cases of normal civilians neutralizing threats to society because of the laws. They don’t get it that if people want something they are gonna get it.
As many things I might not agree, our president speaks the truth. All bulls_it aside I back him because he is straight forward and real. In my time, there hasn't been a president that has.
this is why i voted for him. no political BS or dialogue just heres the facts now move on
Learn the law, take a License to Carry course instead of relying on internet searches of randomly gathered information http://www.bcsgunclass.thinkific.com. Arm up and legally defend and protect yourself!
Duh….there already is "extreme vetting" for gun purchases in America. What is it that you leftists don't understand about that?
If there were more americans with guns, we wouldn't see these problems. Alot of mass shottings happens in gun free zones, and it makes those areas victim to the bad guy with guns. In cities were most people open carry, crime is low..
We should really ban separation of God's Ten Commandments in Exodus 20 and Jesus' teachings from the minds of young people going to schools paid with American tax-payers money.
John Adams, the second US President wrote the following: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” it means that rights for citizens to bear arms does not fit any nation that despises full awareness of the morality that was based on the Judeo Christian religion that dominated the American nation when the second president of the US, John Adams, was alive.
The rights to bear arms was penned down in the context that all American citizens including students paid with tax-payers money were able to be taught Judeo-Christian based morality and such Judeo-Christian based morality created a healthy framework on how firearms would be used. Nations without people with Judeo-Christian based morality would not even mention freedom of citizens to own guns in their constitution because the government would consider itself to be the final source defining good and evil and how evil should be punished. Therefore, only people working for the government would have a right to bear arms.
This entire comment thread is why I moved to the UK in 2017. It's been 23 years since our last mass shooting.
Here's a law for you you fat wanker , BAN GUNS! WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE YOU SHOWER OF SHIT.
It’s the opposite.
1st of all destroy all gun that exists in the world
Keep a close eye on people who know how to make guns
That was the only thing trump said that made sense. Of course he exaggerated like normal saying 100's but he was correct in the narrative.
Laws are for honest people.
Donald trump is a good man
Love the trumpster
That's right…………………….
DAM SKIPPY!!
Thank you president Trump!!! For having common sense !! We're praying for you!;
God Bless President Donald Trump. Thank You for all Your hard work.
Trump is Hitler! So why let Hitler take away your only means to defense?
Why can't there be another solution where every citizen isn't armed to the teeth ;-;
No I'm not a blind gun control advocate I just don't like the idea that people have to have guns everywhere in the house to be safe
Doesn't matter. Guns are useless against slaughterbots. If you own a gun, you are targeted. Prepare to die, and get right with the Lord.
Support our President. It's a PATRIOTIC THING.
Americas armed citizens are behind you sir! Thank you Donald! USA MAGA
We have a gun culture here and criminals know it's suicidal to do such crimes. Evil still finds a way here too. Sad facts. Gun free utopia sounds great but so does one without rapist. Ideals are great but cause wars and fights. I woke up in the real world and choose to take the responsibility of always being ready.