Trump Says People Need Assault Weapons Used in Mass Shootings for 'Entertainment'

[DonViejo]

Trump Says People Need Assault Weapons Used in Mass Shootings for 'Entertainment'

By Tommy Christopher June 5th


President Donald Trump said that people in the United States need the AR-15 assault weapons that are popular with mass shooters for “entertainment,” and compared the almost 40,000 annual gun deaths in the U.S. with stabbing deaths in the U.K that number in the hundreds each year.

British journalist Piers Morgan has long been an advocate of more gun control in the U.S. and used part of his new interview with Trump to press that point.

Asked if he’d like to ban silencers like the one used in the Virginia Beach mass shooting last week, Trump said he’d “like to think about it, I mean nobody’s talked about silencers very much,” and added that “It’s crazy what’s going on with, and not only in our country, and not only in our country…”

“But America has this particular issue with gun violence,” Morgan said, pointing out that there have been “150 mass shootings in America this year alone. In Britain, we have 35 gun deaths a year. In America today there will be 85, tomorrow 85.”

“But Piers, in London you have stabbings all over, I read an article where everyone is being a stabbed,” Trump said.

“We’ve had 50 odd-murders with knives this year in London,” Morgan said.

“Well, they said your hospital is a sea of blood all over the floors. It’s a sea of blood and they don’t have the guns,” Trump said. Annual stabbing deaths in England number fewer than 300.

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[aeromanKC]

1. Rather blood on the hospital floor than 1st grade schoolroom floors

At least a knife wound victim can make it to the hospital. Not so much for the bullet riddled massacred little 1st grader.

[brush]

2. I can't, I just can't take much more of this stupidity from this dumb sob.

[katmondoo]

3. Shooting and killing people is now entertainment????

This man is crazy!!!

[Hoyt]

4. The only ones saying that about knives are white wing gun-humpers arguing to preserve their

access to more guns. trump needs to quit listening to his gun-stroking supporters.

[lunatica]

5. We are living in a bizarre reality show.

For a moment I thought I was reading The Onion.

[justhanginon]

6. No words. At least no printable ones. The stupid oaf never quits.

[DBoon]

7. There are many Trump supporters who find shooting and killing Democrats to be entertaining

Doesn't this just totally entertain you?