11/16/15: Donald Trump Repeated His Claim That The Terrorist Attacks In Paris Were Exacerbated By Tough Gun Control Laws, And That “Some Guys With A Gun” Could Have “Whacked” The Terrorists. “After being relatively quiet over the weekend, Trump hit the talk shows on Monday morning [11/16/15] to speak about the attacks, saying the U.S. needs stronger intelligence and also linking the high death toll to what he views as excessive gun controls. ‘Had there been some guys with a gun, there would have been a shootout and probably the primary people that would have got whacked would have been the killers,’ Trump said on CNBC's ‘Squawk Box.’ ‘You can’t any tougher than Paris, and you can’t get any tougher than France’ on gun control, he continued. ‘They just said, come here, boom, come here, boom…shot these people at will.’” [Politico, 11/16/15] 11/18/15: Donald Trump Said, “If You Had A Guy Like You Or Me, Or Some Other Guys In That Room That Had Guns,” The Terrorist Attacks In Paris Would Have Been Mitigated. “Donald Trump said on Wednesday that, if he or somebody else with a gun had been present during last Friday’s attacks in Paris, things would have gone differently. ‘So they were just shooting people: ‘Next! Next!’’ the former reality TV star told Boston radio host Jeff Kuhner. ‘Just people were totally defenseless. If you had a guy like you or me, or some other guys in that room that had guns, it wouldn’t have been that way, Jeff. You know. It wouldn’t have been that way.’ Trump made the comments after saying that, because of French gun laws, ‘nobody had a gun’ to shoot the attackers, adding that ‘the only ones that had the guns are the bad guys.’” [Buzzfeed, 11/18/15] DONALD TRUMP SAID SCHOOL SHOOTINGS WERE “UNIQUE TO THIS COUNTRY” BUT WOULD HAPPEN “NO MATTER WHAT” Donald Trump Said That School Shootings Were Essentially Inevitable Because “We Have Millions And Millions Of Sick People All Over The World … But This Is Sort Of Unique To This Country, The School Shootings. And You’re Going To Have Difficulty No Matter What.” “Regardless of what the United States does to enforce its gun laws or improve mental health care, people are always going to slip through the cracks, Donald Trump said Friday, a day after a gunman killed nine and injured seven at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. ‘First of all, you have very strong laws on the books, but you're always going to have problems. We have millions and millions of people, we have millions and millions of sick people all over the world. It can happen all over the world and it does happen all over the world, by the way. But this is sort of unique to this country, the school shootings. And you're going to have difficulty no matter what,’ Trump said in a telephone interview on MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe.’” [Politico, 10/2/15] TRUMP SUGGESTED TEACHERS SHOULD BE ARMED IN SCHOOLS Donald Trump Said Teachers Would Be Better Off During School Shootings If They Were Armed. “The 2016 GOP front-runner also weighed in on whether teachers should carry guns - his fellow presidential candidate Ben Carson said kindergarten teachers who are properly trained should - saying: ‘Assuming they knew how to use the weapon, which hopefully they would, you would've been a lot better when this maniac walked into class, starting to shoot people.’” [CBS News, 10/11/15] Confidential Page 128