Rubio said in part about his decision: “Even as we fight terrorists overseas and strengthen our abilities to prevent homegrown extremism, we can not undermine the American people’s Second Amendment rights to protect themselves and their families”.
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“I don’t think you should have firearms where people are drinking”, LaPiere told CBS’s “Face the Nation”.
“No one thinks that people should go into a nightclub drinking and carrying firearms”, said Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action.
In a speech Friday in Texas, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said that if people in the nightclub “had guns strapped.?.?. right to their waist or right to their ankle”, they could have shot “the son of a bitch”, the New York Post reported.
Trump told supporters at a rally in Texas last week that armed people with concealed weapons would have been able to stop the Orlando gunman, who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub before dying in a shootout with the police.
Trump, who tweeted last week that he meant to speak to the NRA “about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list or the no fly list to buy guns”, told CBS he’s talking to the NRA, which already endorsed him, “about the whole concept of terror watch lists”. Even the NRA thinks Trump “defies common sense”.
“Criminals and terrorists aren’t going to be deterred by one more gun control law”, Cox told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
“It’s not what we’re talking about here”, he said.
Another study, conducted by researchers from Harvard and the University of Vermont, found that what some GOP lawmakers have called “defensive gun use” – that is to say, potential victims using guns for self-defense while under attack violent – does little to fight their own risk of injury.
Trump said he’s urging the NRA to reexamine its position.
Donald Trump may have the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, but the two aren’t exactly seeing eye to eye on some gun control issues.
Trump was then forced to clarify his statement on Twitter.
He said the same thing after the Paris attacks – a coordinated, military-style assault involving multiple actors and explosive devices – took the lives of 129 people.
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Last Wednesday, the billionaire businessman tweeted that he would “be meeting with the NRA, who has endorsed me, about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns”.
