Think about this for a moment. What do people do at clubs? They do alcohol and sometimes drugs. Do you really want people there armed that aren't the bouncer? A bouncer armed that isn't drinking right then is one thing but drunk people on drugs armed? That's just a recipe for people dying or being maimed. It's bad enough to have a loaded gun around someone not drunk or on drugs who might be angry for one reason or another.
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(CNN)Top National Rifle Association officials split Sunday with Donald
Trump's position that armed club-goers are a good idea. "I don't think
you should have firearms where people are …
NRA officials split with Trump on wisdom of armed club-goers
Washington (CNN)Top National Rifle Association officials split Sunday with Donald Trump's position that armed club-goers are a good idea.
"I
don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking," said
Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's chief executive officer said on CBS' "Face the
Nation." "But I will tell you this. Everybody, every American starts to
have -- needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to
protect ourselves, because they're coming. And they're going for
vulnerable spots, and this country needs to realize it."
NRA
lobbyist Chris Cox told ABC's "This Week": "No one thinks that people
should go into a nightclub drinking and carrying firearms. That defies
commonsense. It also defies the law. It's not what we're talking about
here."
Trump had said Friday at a rally that armed club-goers shooting Omar Mateen "would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight."
"If we had people, where the bullets were going in the opposite direction, right smack between the eyes of this maniac," Trump said, gesturing between his eyes.
"And this son of a b---- comes out and starts shooting and one of the
people in that room happened to have (a gun) and goes boom. You know
what, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks."
LaPierre
later tweeted: "I want to clarify my comment: if you're going to carry,
don't drink. OK to carry in restaurants that serve alcohol."
The latest split comes as Trump has requested a meeting with NRA leaders to discuss banning gun sales to people on the federal terror watch list and no-fly list.
LaPierre
also said Sunday that banning sales to those on the watch list would
not have had any effect in Orlando because Omar Mateen had already been
removed from the list.
"NRA didn't
take the guy's name off the list. The federal government did, FBI did,
largely because of these some politically correct policies that I think I
have been talking about earlier," LaPierre said on CBS' "Face the
Nation."
The NRA's push comes as
senators prepare to vote on a series of measures which would limit sales
to suspected terrorists. Opponents of the measures argue that federal
watch lists are wrought with errors and could deprive citizens of their
constitutional right to bear arms.
"The problem is, you have got indications on this list of people who might be involved in terrorism," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama,
told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "And we need to keep a
list of that, need to do the best we can to monitor those people, so
that they don't become an active terrorist person. But a lot of people
may be wrongly on the list. In fact, I'm sure there are a lot of people
on that list that shouldn't be o 
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