Rick Perry: We Need More Guns in Movie Theaters
On Sunday, Rick Perry attempted to stand out from the (already spectacularly incompetent) pool of GOP hopefuls with one of the dumbest responses to the Lafayette shooting yet. In an interview with CNN, the Texas governor said that “it makes a lot of sense” to allow more people to carry guns into gun-free zones like movie theaters.
I will suggest to you that these concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country, who have appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms, to carry them.
I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity, or stop it before there’s as many people that are impacted as what we saw in Lafayette.
Still, Perry said he does, at least, believe that part of the problem is that the existing gun laws are currently being enforced. But rather than strengthening those laws, which might prevent gun violence from ever happening in the first place, Perry seems to think the answer lies in bringing more guns to more places.
And somehow, Rick Perry still isn’t the worst candidate in the 2016 GOP pool. But god bless him for trying.
[There was a video here]
