Trump tried to weasel his way out of responding but finally said he said a lie to get out of responding: that Chicago has the strongest gun laws in the nation and even so it's a "disaster." He also suggested that tougher gun laws could've made the massacre worse.
Trump called for extreme vetting just after NYC. Today, he was asked if he'd consider extreme gun vetting after TX. Far different response. pic.twitter.com/lZwpgXJHDo
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 7, 2017
This is why that claim is a lie:
First of all, Trump claims tougher gun laws would've made it impossible for somebody who had a gun in his truck to take down the Texas shooter. Not so. That's the job of the police.
Second, Chicago does NOT have the strongest gun laws in the country. According to Politifact, since 2010 Chicago no longer has the toughest gun laws in the nation because the Supreme Court stroke it down. Two years laater, another Chicago gun law was stroke down. And today, Illinois gun laws are too linient.
AND, according to The New York Times, turns out there IS a gun law in place that could've prevented the massacre: The Air Force was required to report an incident of violence involving the Texas shooter. That incident would've prevented him from buying the guns he used for the massacre.
Because as it turns out, one of the common denominators in cases of mass shooters is incidents of domestic violence. Thus, not allowing people who commit domestic violence to buy guns would've reduced the amount of dead people from 26 to ZERO.
By the way: the thing about domestic violence and mass shootings came up LAST WEEK on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee:
https://youtu.be/iBuKbe40uWM
One-week-before-the-Texas-mass-shooting.
And guess what? The Texas shooter had a LONG history of domestic violence.
But Trump is a liar, and ignorant, and an idiot.
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