Candidate’s statement on gun-free zones after Oregon shooting

Oct 6, 2015 | Featured

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Some evidence that the political debate is changing.

This campus was a gun free zone and yet somehow this individual got onto campus with not one gun but several guns. So, before we start calling for more laws I think we ought to consider why we don’t enforce the laws we have.”  — Carly Fiorina

it’s clear that gun free zones are sitting duck zones” — Gov. Mike Huckabee

Wouldn’t they have been better off if somebody in the room, anybody, anybody, had a gun to at least help them out? It was a terrible thing. And these gun-free zones are a disaster. Everybody’s just a sitting duck.” — Donald Trump

UPDATE:

He says the idea of declaring gun-free zones may be counterproductive. The gunmen “tend to pick places that are gun-free zones,” he says. “They aren’t likely to go into a place where they are likely to get shot.” — Ben Carson in USA Today

Marco Rubio has also made strong statements on this topic, and we will try to post them soon.

Information on the Oregon shooting being a in gun-free zone is available here.

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1 Comment

  1. Tom

    So when will politician’s favoring 2nd amendment rights refuse to do interviews or answer questions of those media outlets that continually display bias toward gun ownership and do not report on how many lives are saved by legal gun owners. To not take some kind of action allows the media to dictate the terms of the debate and influence the public according to their bias rather than the whole scope of the issue.

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