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After this week’s massacre of over a dozen people at a social services center in San Bernardino, California, Donald Trump is floating an alternative to recent calls for gun control: Arm people with more guns.
“I feel very strongly that people in this country — and actually the world — need protection,” the Republican presidential candidate told reporters ahead of a campaign rally in Spencer, Iowa, on Saturday.
READ MORE: Donald Trump: Paris massacre would have been ‘much different’ if people had guns
Responding to a question about a New York Times editorial that pushed for more restrictive measures on gun purchases, Trump pointed to the latest mass shooting instances to prove his point: “If you look at Paris, they didn’t have guns, and they were slaughtered. If you look at what happened in California, they didn’t have guns, and they were slaughtered.”
“I think it would’ve been a lot better if they had guns in that room, somebody could protect,” he said. “They could’ve protected themselves if they had guns.”