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brooklynite

(94,333 posts)
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 09:36 AM Jun 2016

Trump: It would've been 'beautiful' for Fla. clubgoer to kill shooter

The Hill:

Donald Trump argued again that the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., could have been less deadly had people in the gay nightclub been able to shoot back.

At a rally in The Woodlands, Texas, Friday night, Trump theatrically said he wished the shooter, Omar Mateen, would have been taken down by an armed Pulse clubgoer.

"If we had people with the bullets going in the opposite direction — right smack between the eyes of this maniac," Trump said, pointing in a gun gesture to his forehead. "If some of those wonderful people had guns strapped right here, right to their waist or right to their ankle, and this son of a bitch comes out and starts shooting, and one of the people in that room happened to have it and goes boom, boom, you know what? That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight."


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Botany

(70,447 posts)
1. ATTN D Trump
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 09:38 AM
Jun 2016

An armed and trained policeman was in the club. The shooter just ran to another room and locked
the door.

RKP5637

(67,086 posts)
2. He's one sick, hateful individual on a power trip wanting to be the first dictator of America.
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 09:40 AM
Jun 2016

It never ceases to amaze me how many Americans are clueless as they support him. They are totally incapable of comprehending WTF is going on.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
3. People go to a dance club to drink, dance, and have fun. They don't go to provide security
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 09:46 AM
Jun 2016

How can you Macarena while being hyper vigilant to external threats?

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
4. Don't you want to a club where people drink and dance and have guns strapped to their ankles ?
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 09:56 AM
Jun 2016

Or everyone has one on their waist
Now that would make murica great! Think about it
Also fact check fact check fact check Trumpers>>>>>
Adam Gruler, an Orlando police officer working security for Pulse nightclub that night, traded gunshots with the gunman that night.
Gruler, a 15-year veteran of the Orlando Police Department, was at the club, in uniform, working security. He traded gunfire with Mateen before the gunman made his way further into the club. That’s according to the Orlando Police Department.
OPD statement, June 12: On June 12, 2016, just after 2 a.m., an Orlando Police Officer working extra duty at the Pulse Nightclub, located at 1912 S. Orange Ave., responded to shots fired. Our officer engaged in a gun battle with that suspect and the suspect went deeper into the club where more shots were fired. The incident then turned into a hostage situation.

Now anyone armed who doesn't kill a mass shooter is a loser right trump ???

livetohike

(22,121 posts)
5. He is sick, disgusting and talks like a young child. The gun goes boom? Thought guns went "bang".
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 10:50 AM
Jun 2016

Disgusting piece of trash masquerading as a Presidential candidate.

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