2024 CNN Town Hall: on Gun Control
Mike Pence:
Armed guards at every public and private school in America
I think the time has come for us as a country to end the discussion about school security and if it takes federal legislation and federal funding,
we ought to fund and arm and train security guard at every public and private school in America. And we ought to do it now.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Jun 7, 2023
Chris Christie:
Criminals don't follow the law; that's why they're criminals
I really think that we need to have law enforcement become much more sensitive to what they're seeing from a mental health perspective with people in the community. Because, in the end, those people almost always send off signs and signals.
Now, I wish I had a better answer than that. I really do. And I've really searched my soul and searched the law as a lawyer to say what could be done that would make it better. But criminals don't follow the law. That's why they're criminals.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Jun 12, 2023
Donald Trump:
FactCheck: NRA did oppose Trump "bump stock" ban
[CNN Town Hall transcript]: Q: Under your administration, you instructed the Department of Justice and ATF to ban bump stocks.TRUMP: Yeah, as you know, the bump stocks are actually a very unimportant thing and NRA, I went with them and they said, "it
doesn't mean anything. Actually, all they do is teach you how to shoot very inaccurately." So we did that.
A.P. Fact Check: The National Rifle Association is "disappointed" with the Trump administration's plan to outlaw bump stocks,
which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire continuously. An NRA spokeswoman says the Justice Department should provide amnesty for gun owners who already have the devices, and says the regulation "fails to address the thousands of law-abiding Americans"
who followed the government's previous guidance. Bump stocks became a focal point in the gun control debate after they were used in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern U.S. history.
Source: A.P. FactCheck on CNN Town Hall (2024 candidates)
Dec 18, 2018
Nikki Haley:
Secure schools with onsite police, not gun-free zones
Let's make sure when it comes to our schools, secure our schools. There should be one point of entry. There should be a law enforcement officer at every school. We should make sure there's the clear bulletproof tape that we have at courthouses and
airports. We should have that on our schools to protect them. And we should have a mental health counselor at every single school, not a guidance counselor but a mental health counselor.
You know, everybody wants to say, oh, let's get rid of AR-15s. The reality is, even if you did that, it might make you feel good today, there's going to be another shooting next week. The reason a lot of these happened, and you mentioned that
shooting at the schools, you need to end gun-free zones. Killers always look for a place that's a gun-free zone, because guess what, nobody else is going to be able to protect themselves.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Jun 4, 2023
Nikki Haley:
I don't trust government to deal with red flag laws
I don't trust government to deal with red flag laws. I don't trust that they won't take them away from people who rightfully deserve to have them, because you've got someone else judging whether someone should have a gun or not. It is a
constitutional right that people can protect and defend themselves. What I want is the Feds to do their job. What I want is to take illegal guns off the street. What I want us to do is deal with mental health the way it deserves to be dealt with.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Jun 4, 2023
Nikki Haley:
For school shootings: more mental health; more security
What we see is, 80 percent of mass shooters are in some sort of crisis at the time that they do that. We have got to do better. The problem is, we don't have enough mental health therapists. We don't have enough mental health centers.
And if you don't get treated, you can fall into an addiction. We don't have enough addiction centers.We have to secure our schools the same ways that we secure our airports and our courthouses.
And that means we make sure that we have whatever we need to, to make sure nothing comes through bullet-wise or otherwise. We need to have a security officer at the front of every school.
We need to have one point of entry, no side or rear entries. And then, we need to make sure that we have someone on staff, a mental health counselor that does nothing but look to see which kids may be in crisis.
Source: CNN Town Hall 2024 pre-Iowa caucus
Jan 4, 2024
Ron DeSantis:
Opposes waiting periods; instant checks will do the job
I think the background check should be instant. You have the thing, somebody goes, you can run them, and you can see. If there's a criminal conviction, if they're a felon, then, obviously, they ping. If they have mental health adjudication, then, of
course, they're going to ping. But I think you want it to be instant background checks. People that go, law-abiding citizens exercising their rights, you shouldn't have to be on a mandatory waiting period. Instant checks will do the job.
Source: CNN Town Hall 2024 pre-Iowa caucus
Jan 4, 2024
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