‘Let me tell you, if you had a couple teachers with guns in that room, you would have been a hell of a lot better off.’” [Buzzfeed, 10/5/15] • 2000: Donald Trump Said He Wished Nobody Had Guns And Supported Longer Background Checks And The Assault Weapons Ban. “The Donald’s sudden and loud embrace of the Second Amendment might come as a surprise to people who followed his first flirtation with running for the presidency in 2000 as a member of the Reform Party. Then The Donald, ever the populist, said while he generally opposed gun control, he slammed Republicans for not wanting registrations on guns and said he wished nobody had guns. Similarly, Trump said he supported longer background checks and the ban on assault weapons.” [Buzzfeed, 10/5/15] • 2000: Donald Trump Criticized Republicans Who “Walk The NRA Line And Refuse Even Limited Restrictions.” “The Donald’s sudden and loud embrace of the Second Amendment might come as a surprise to people who followed his first flirtation with running for the presidency in 2000 as a member of the Reform Party. Then The Donald, ever the populist, said while he generally opposed gun control, he slammed Republicans for not wanting registrations on guns and said he wished nobody had guns. … ‘The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions. I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun. With today’s internet technology we should be able to tell within 72 hours if a potential gun owner has a record.’” [Buzzfeed, 10/5/15] 11/14/15: Donald Trump Said That If The Victims Of The Paris Terrorist Attack Would Have Had Guns, “It Would Have Been A Much, Much Different Situation.” “‘When you look at Paris, toughest gun laws in the world, nobody had guns but the bad guys,’ the Republican presidential candidate said during an appearance in Texas, in remarks broadcast by CNN. ‘Nobody had guns. And they were just shooting them one by one, and then they broke in and had a big shootout and ultimately killed the terrorists.’ At least 129 people died in the attacks, for which ISIS has taken credit. ‘And I will tell you what—you can say what you want, if they had guns, if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry, it would have been a much, much different situation,’ Trump added.” [Time, 11/14/15; Donald Trump Campaign Rally, Beaumont, Texas, 11/14/15] • 1/7/15: Donald Trump Tweeted About French Gun Control Laws After The Shootings At The French Satirical Newspaper Charlie Hebdo. “As such, it was no surprise that after shootings at the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris this week, some Americans began to wonder about gun control laws. ‘Isn't it interesting that the tragedy in Paris took place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?’ American reality television star Donald Trump wrote on Twitter shortly after the news broke. The tweet prompted both praise (over a thousand retweets) and scorn (Trump was labelled a ‘moron’ and an ‘idiot’ by other tweeters).” [Washington Post, 1/9/15] • 1/7/15: Donald Trump: “Isn’t It Interesting That The Tragedy In Paris Took Place In One Of The Toughest Gun Control Countries In The World?” [@realDonaldTrump, Twitter, 1/7/15] Confidential Page 127