Several thousand people roared with approval Friday night for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who brought his no-nonsense platform about immigration and homeland security to North Carolina for the first time since announcing his candidacy.
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After this week’s massacre of over a dozen people at a social services center in San Bernardino, California, Donald Trump is floating an alternative to recent calls for gun control: Arm people with more guns. “But I can tell you this, they want their families left alone. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families”, Trump told Fox News, as quoted by CNN.
“Why don’t you take them out the nearest door instead of walking them through the whole place?” an irritated Trump asked after the eighth incident. Trump has said he’s looking to engage the “silent majority”, a phrase first employed by Richard Nixon in 1969, who relied on a version of populism to get into the Oval Office. Other phrases like “America isn’t a country that wins any more” and “I’d bomb the sh*t out of [ISIS]” have nearly gone viral, as the candidate continues to speak without what would generally be considered a filter. “Trump’s whistle is not a dog-whistle”, Zimmer said.
Trump also declared that he doesn’t believe the family members of the San Bernardino shooting were ignorant of their plans.
Trump said he did not believe in the narrative of Farook’s sister.Saira Khan and Eba Farook, the two sisters of Syed Rizwan Farook, expressed anguish at the tragedy that has engulfed the the family and community after their brother and his wife shot dead 14 people.
Responding to a question about a New York Times editorial that pushed for more restrictive measures on gun purchases, Trump pointed to the latest mass shooting instances to prove his point: “If you look at Paris, they didn’t have guns, and they were slaughtered. They’re killing innocent people”. “I would go after a lot of people and I’d find out whether or not they knew”.
“Oh, look at this guy”, Trump said. ‘Because the problem will get solved when he gets the hell out’.
“I have a very good memory, Chuck”.
No, my friends, we are all being played by a master showman, the likes of whom we haven’t seen since P.T. Barnum.
But at another point in the interview, he suggested that if the victims in San Bernardino, as well as Paris, had had guns, they could have better resisted their attackers. He continued to say to Quad Citians, “I think you’ll like this because their headquarters”. Ganor then went on to say, “Adopting this policy is immoral and against the common liberal democratic values”.
Speaking on Saturday at a rally in Spencer, Iowa, Trump pressed the importance of caucusing.
“I think things will settle down”.
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“The fact is we don’t need to be profiling in order to be able to get the job done here”, he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation”. “They could’ve protected themselves if they had guns”.
