Trump: mass-shooting gunmen are 'sick as hell and geniuses in a certain way'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump: mass-shooting gunmen are 'sick as hell and geniuses in a certain way'

Comments come days after nine killed at Oregon community college
At rally, Trump invokes Charles Bronson vigilante movie Death Wish

Ben Jacobs in Washington
Sunday 4 October 2015 15.47 BST

Three days after a gunman killed nine people at an Oregon community college and then shot himself dead, the Republican presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump, seemed to accept the inevitability of mass shootings in the US.

In a rare sit-down interview, for broadcast on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Trump told Chuck Todd: “I have to say, no matter what you do, you’re gonna have problems.

“Because you have sick people. They happen to be intelligent. And, you know, they can be sick as hell and they’re geniuses in a certain way. They are going to be able to break the system.”

The New York real-estate billionaire, who boasts of possessing a concealed carry permit, said he did not see the need for increased firearms regulations after the mass shooting in Oregon.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/donald-trump-oregon-mass-shooting-gunmen-geniuses

[MisterP]

1. no, they're goddamn doorknobs whose utter vacuity is revealed by their alleged "manifestoes"

they just wanna break something pretty, snuff out some happiness: we've turned the country into an arms bazaar because we're so damn frightened all the time (without realizing we're making it worse every day)

it doesn't take a smidgen of genius to accumulate 13 guns: you get 'em as party favors and form mother-son bonding sessions at the range around 'em; we treat them like iPods and pretend they save lives

[Eleanors38]

2. tRump got hiz. Gun-control has always been elitist. Bloomie, too.

[krispos42]

3. It's not particularly hard to find a group of helpless people in a confined space, then shoot them.

It really isn't.

Everybody knows where a school is, and what the schedules are. Everybody knows when churches and such meet. Everybody knows where a fast-food restaurant is and when the lunch rush is. School and public bus schedules are readily available. So are subway and light rail and ferry schedules. As are sporting events such as Little League, high school sports, PeeWee football, and minor- and major-league sports. How about a concert at a local bar and grill? How about a movie theater?

Nearly all of us are in a hideously vulnerable location several times a day.

[ileus]

4. What a dunce.....It's not genius to know the gun free sign = easy targets.

Even these black wearing losers can figure that out...

Donald is an idiot.

[friendly_iconoclast]

5. The same could easily be said about him...

[Eleanors38]

6. Heh. ^^^