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Trump: Gun laws have 'nothing to do' with Oregon shooting

• thehill.com

"The gun laws have nothing to do with this," Trump told ABC News on Friday, when asked about stricter gun regulations. 

"This isn't guns, this is about really mental illness. And I feel very strongly about it," he added.

The business mogul said difficulties in dealing with people with mental problems are unavoidable.

"Even if you had great education having to deal with mental illness. You educate the community — you're going to have people that slip through the cracks," he said.

Trump told MSNBC earlier Friday that school shootings are a phenomenon isolated to the U.S.

"We have millions of sick people all over the world," he said. "This is sort of unique to our country — the school shootings."

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Comment by PureTrust
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Gun laws don't have anything to do with the guy going out and starting to shoot. If all students were required to open carry, the joker still might have started his dastardly deed.

If the students were required to open carry at all times, the guy might have felt the need for more and more powerful guns. This could have slowed him down to the point that he might have abandoned his plan.

However, if things had played out basically the same way, the hero who charged the gunman and received 7 gunshot wounds as his reward, wouldn't have done that. He would have simply shot the gunman and the problem would have gone away.

Gun laws don't make the problem. What they do is make the problem worse.