Donald Trump Says Attacks In Paris Would Have Been “Different” If Citizens Were Armed

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Donald Trump Says Attacks In Paris Would Have Been “Different” If Citizens Were Armed

The people of Paris are still reeling from the unspeakable act of evil that was carried out against them by Muslim terrorists yesterday.

In the next days and weeks, many changes will be made to try and prevent something like this from happening again.  Immigration policy will be looked at and the decision to let hundreds of thousands of immigrants flood into Europe  from the Middle East without any kind of oversight will surely be questioned.

Gun control is also an issue that will come up in this debate and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has already weighed in on a major change that he believes could lessen the damage of an attack like this in the future.

From The Hill:

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says victims of the terrorist attacks in France on Friday would have had a better chance of defending themselves if they were allowed to carry guns.
“When you look at Paris, you know, the toughest gun laws in the world, nobody had guns except for the bad guys, nobody,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Beaumont, Texas, on Saturday. “Nobody had guns, and they were just shooting them one by one.”
The billionaire business mogul said the outcome would have been “different” if citizens were armed.
“And I’ll tell you what, you can say what you want, but if they had guns, if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry, it would have been a much, much different situation,” he said.
At least 129 civilians were killed in France in a series of coordinated terror attacks Friday. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has taken responsibility for the attacks.
Trump also called President Obama’s plan to take in displaced Syrian refugees “insane.”
Say what you want about the appropriate amount of time that should pass before events like this should be politicized, but Trump brings up an excellent point that conservatives in America have been trying to effectively articulate for years.
America is no stranger to mass shootings, and a big reason for that is the flawed logic of “gun free zones” which basically provide killers with an opportunity to murder large amounts of defenseless people without the worry of being taken down.
Would armed citizens have stopped this attack? Of course not.  However, could lives have been saved by citizens who were armed? Absolutely.
Trump’s point is a good one and hopefully looser gun laws will be one of the changes that are implemented by the French to at least try to prevent another awful situation like this from happening again.
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