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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Sunday insisted that a tragic massacre at Sandy Forks Elementary School in Connecticut could have been prevented if Principal Dawn Hochsprung had been armed with an M4 carbine, an assault rifle designed by the U.S. military for urban warfare.
During an interview on Sunday, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Gohmert if he still believed that the country would be safer if more people were armed as he had said after a mass shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colorado earlier this year.
Every mass killing of more than three people in recent history has been in a place where guns were prohibited except for one, the Texas Republican explained. They choose this place, they know no one will be armed.
Gohmert became emotional as he continued: You know, having been and judge and having reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds gunshots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves and hearing the heroic stories the principal, lunging trying to protect Chris, I wish to God she had had an M4 in her office locked up. So, when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didnt have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, but she takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.
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FightingIrish
(2,716 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)The GOP answer to everything
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)She was in another conference room in a meeting. She would not have had time to go back to her office, unlock the safety cabinet, take out the gun and then go after the shooter.
The only way I can see that she or anyone could have cut down this shooter was if they'd been carrying a weapon on their person...loaded...and ready to use. And I just don't see how we could encourage that. But what do I know?
The solution is fewer guns in this country, not more. Get rid of assault weapons. Their only purpose is to kill.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)And seriously, I don't want to work in a school where the principal carries an assault rifle on her back. Yuck.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)tanyev
(42,572 posts)irisblue
(32,982 posts)Congress and the nation would be better without his noise
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)To say something stupid.
Goober never disappoints.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)God, I'd gladly take Goodtime Charlie Wilson over this POS anyday.