Donald Trump on Paris massacre: 'Nobody had guns but the bad guys'  

Donald Trump on Paris massacre: 'Nobody had guns but the bad guys'

Colin Campbell,Business Insider 5 hours ago

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(REUTERS/Kevin Kolczynski) Donald Trump.
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump argued on Saturday that the terrorist attack in Paris the previous night would have been "much, much different" if people there had been armed.
"When you look at Paris — the toughest gun laws in the world, Paris — nobody had guns but the bad guys. Nobody. Nobody had guns," Trump said at a presidential campaign rally in Beaumont, Texas.
"They were just shooting them one by one," the Republican presidential front-runner lamented.
Most of Friday night's violence occurred at Paris' Bataclan concert venue, where attackers opened fire and then took hostages. Authorities said at least 89 people were killed there.
Trump did not say what exactly would have been different if Parisians had gun rights, or that the 129 people who authorities have said died in the series of attacks would have been saved. However, he suggested that right-to-carry laws would have helped to stop the attackers, who were armed with machine guns and explosives.
"I'll tell you what. You can say what you want, but if they had guns — if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry — it would've been a much, much different situation," he said to cheers.
Trump then noted that much of the gun violence in the US occurs in cities that have strict gun laws.
"I hear it all the time," he said. "You look at certain cities that have the highest violence, the highest problem with guns and shootings and killings. Chicago as an example, toughest gun laws in the United States. Nothing but problems. So our country better get smart, because we're not smart right now."
He also said the Paris attacks clarified how "insane" it would be for the US to take in a large number of Syrian refugees fleeing the violence there.

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Though I agree that it would be less likely terrorists would attack armed people, it mostly would depend upon how these people were trained. Most people train themselves to defend themselves. However, this is different than the kind of training police and Army personnel would have. So, maybe some people with concealed weapons could have brought down a few terrorists but it is hard to say that the outcome would be completely different than what actually happened. Unless people had sub machine guns like Kalashnikovs or similar you don't really have the firepower to really make too much of a difference. The main difference likely would be maybe 1 or 2 terrorists would have been shot before they could detonate their explosive belts. But then, what would the rest of the terrorists do in response before they blew themselves up?

But, here is one thing I can say for sure, "Terrorists would be much less likely to do this sort of thing in a city where people are often armed like in the U.S."

They chose Paris because they know everyone but the police is unarmed. So, they could attack and kill 100 or more in such a city and know they likely would be successful.

This is the best reason I know to arm Paris.