USA: "Trump Logic" Texas shooting: Trump says tighter gun controls could have meant more deaths

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Stricter gun controls could have resulted in more deaths during the Texas church shooting massacre because a neighbor might not have been able to shoot the gunman, President Trump said today Tuesday. July 7

Trump, speaking at a news conference in South Korea, was asked if he would be willing to use "extreme vetting" for people who want to buy a gun, similar to the "extreme vetting" he has discussed for people coming to the United States.

Trump replied that stricter gun controls would have made "no difference" in the carnage Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Devin Kelley, 26, fatally shot 26 people and wounded 20 more during a service at the rural church outside San Antonio.

Trump added that stricter gun controls might have kept Stephen Willeford, who lived near the church, from intervening in the massacre.

"You might not have had that very brave person who happened to have a gun or a rifle in his truck go out and shoot him and hit him and neutralize him," Trump said. "If he didn't have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, you would have had hundreds more dead."

Trump went on to say that Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the nation, and "Chicago is a disaster."

Note EU-Digest: "Trump - What a guy and what great logic" - It is also amazing that no one from the President down to the Press calls this man who killed 26 people a terrorist. 

Every disturbed, deranged person who kills a large number of people must be labelled a terrorist, whatever color, whatever religion, wherever the person comes from. 

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