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Trump commented on the shooting today, and was asked by a reporter if he would want to change any gun laws. His response was "If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him".
No. Fuck no.
The solution to prevent shootings is more firearms, and more people armed with firearms? And we want to put them in the two places where firearms should never be, churches and schools?
Armed guards is clearly not the solution. It obviously didn't work in the Parkland shooting, where an armed officer was unable to do anything to stop the shooting. You cannot send a single man armed with a handgun into a building where a gunman with a death wish is armed with an assault rifle.
I met with our Chief of Police the week before last. At any given moment in our town of fifty thousand people we have four officers on duty. We have a dozen schools in town. It's physically impossible to have an officer at each school. Of course, this doesn't include churches.
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