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U.S. NEWS A5
Monday 5 October 2015

Trump defends gun rights following
Oregon shootings

liberal architect embarks
on a vigilante mission af-
ter his life is shattered by
thugs who kill his wife and
rape his daughter.
“Today you can’t make
that movie because it’s
not politically correct,”
Trump said.
Saturday marked the sec-
ond time Trump had spo-
ken in the Nashville area
in five weeks. Tennessee is
among the states holding
their primaries on March
1, also called Super Tues-
day, and he noted that
his comments brought a
strong response from the
overflow crowd in gun-
friendly Tennessee.
“As soon as I mentioned it
the place went absolutely
wild,” he said.q

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at an
event Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Franklin, Tenn.

Associated Press

ERIK SCHELZIG shootings.
Associated Press “Many states and many
FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) cities are closing their
— Republican presidential mental health facilities
candidate Donald Trump and closing them down,
on Saturday channeled and they’re closing them
1970s action star Charles because they don’t have
Bronson in defending gun the funding,” he said.
rights in the aftermath of “And we have to start
the shooting at an Ore- looking much stronger
gon college that left nine into mental health.”
dead. While Trump warned that
Trump, the billionaire “no matter what you do,
businessman and early you will always have prob-
Republican front-runner, lems,” he argued that it
said in a rally in subur- doesn’t make sense to
ban Nashville that he has limit access to firearms.
a handgun carry permit “It’s not the guns,” Trump
in New York. He added said during his hourlong
that any attacker will be speech. “It’s the people,
“shocked” if he tries to it’s these sick people.”
assault him, and that he He also criticized President
would emulate Bronson in Barack Obama’s com-
the vigilante film “Death ments in response to the
Wish.” shootings as “divisive.”
“Can you imagine with Trump’s positions on gun
Trump, somebody says, control have evolved sig-
‘Ohhh, all these big mon- nificantly over the years.
sters aren’t around, he’s While he now touts the
easy pickins, and then ... stance of the powerful
pu-ching!” Trump said to National Rifle Associa-
laughter and applause. tion gun lobby, he once
“So this is about self-de- backed the ban on as-
fense, plain and simple.” sault weapons and longer
Trump criticized “gun-free waiting periods for gun
zones,” saying that the purchases.
Oregon shootings could Trump reminisced about
have been limited if in- Bronson’s “Death Wish”
structors or students had and got people in the
been armed. He said bet- crowd to shout out the title
ter mental health care of the 1974 film in unison.
would help curb future In the movie, an affluent,