Donald Trump says he sometimes carries a gun to protect himself.
“Sometimes,” Trump told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “I will tell you, I feel much better being armed.” At a rally in Tennessee on Oct. 3, the Republican presidential frontrunner told the crowd he has a concealed-weapon permit. “I
have a license to carry in New York — can you believe that? Nobody
knows that,” Trump said. “Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be
shocked.”
On Sunday, Trump said he obtained the license years ago because “I like to have myself protected.”
The
GOP candidate has been courting supporters of the Second Amendment in
the wake of the deadly shooting at a community college in Roseburg,
Ore., earlier this month.
Authorities
say the 26-year-old shooter, Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer, brought at
least six guns and five ammunition magazines to the school, killing
nine people and wounding seven others before killing himself.
“Had
somebody in that room had a gun, the result would’ve been better,”
Trump said Sunday. “I think that if you had the teacher, assuming they
knew how to use the weapon, which hopefully they would, you would’ve
been a lot better when this maniac walked into class, starting to shoot
people.”
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