'Armed teachers could have prevented Oregon shooting'
US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said that armed teachers could have prevented the deadly rampage at a college near Roseburg, Oregon last Thursday.
A gunman, identified as Chris Harper Mercer, opened fire inside a classroom at the Umpqua Community College and killed nine people and injured seven others.
“This is in light of what’s gone on in Oregon,” Trump said Saturday during a campaign stop in Franklin, Tenn. “And by the way, it was a gun-free zone.”
“I’ll tell you, if you had a couple of the teachers or someone with guns in that room, you would have been a hell of a lot better off,” the Republican frontrunner opined.
The deadly shooting has once again advanced calls for background checks from gun control advocates, but Trump was quick to throw his support behind “law-abiding gun owners.”
“They have background checks already in place,” he said. “That was in 1998. People slipped through, and our government’s not doing a great job.”
The businessman has previously said that school shootings are “unique” to the United States, but rejected the idea that the US gun laws should be blamed for the massacre.
Following the Thursday’s incident, the United Nations asked Washington to take measures to reduce gun violence.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned about the high death toll that US gun violence is inflicting on American lives.
The deadly rampage at Umpqua is the 294th mass shooting event in 2015, according to statistics collected by the website Shootingtracker.com, which defines a mass shooting as in incident in which four or more people are shot.
The number of intentional homicides by guns was 11,208 in 2013, the last year for which US health authorities have statistics.
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