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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBBC host stumps open carry gun advocate whose response to mass shootings is to arm ‘good guys’
n an interview with a BBC Five Live host, the president of gun advocacy group Open Carry Texas defended his states newly liberalized gun laws and said the only way to stop mass shootings is to put more guns on the street.
According to C.J. Grisham, the U.S. has plenty of gun laws on the books, but added, You can pass all the background checks you want, but a criminal gang member in Chicago isnt going to run a background check on another gang member.
Grisham was then interrupted by the host who asked, Sorry. How many of the mass college shootings were carried out by criminal gang members?
Well they were all carried out by criminals, not licensed carriers, Grisham replied, before being pressed if they were gang members.
So how did those people manage to access the weaponry that led to all of those deaths then? he was asked.
Illegally,. Thats what Im saying, Grisham replied, before being asked, How do you tighten that up then?
Well, you cant stop all crime, he replied. You tighten it up by getting rid of gun-free zones and allowing people to defend themselves no matter where they walk, no matter where they go, no matter where they study.
So, just to be clear, C.J. he was asked, The solution is actually having more guns in circulation in America. Therefore, when a Columbine happens, a teacher can open fire in a classroom against the assailant. So, guns in classrooms? You advocate that?
More at http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/bbc-host-stumps-open-carry-gun-advocate-whose-response-to-mass-shootings-is-to-arm-good-guys/
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(51,122 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)All the recent mass shooters purchased their guns legally (the mass shooting in San Bernardino is an exception to this).
The "gang criminals" are generally too busy shooting one another up (and the occasional innocent bystander) to slip into suburbia to terrorize people with a mass shooting--that seems to be a mostly white male problem, not "gang criminals (code word for Negros, of course)."