Donald Trump Thinks The Paris Attacks Would Be ‘Much Different’ If Citizens Had Guns

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to the great state of Texas on Saturday during his quest to “Make America Great Again.” As this video shows, he spoke for over an hour, which is his new plan of action. His campaign has transformed into a series of long-winded monologues that feel like he’s trying to convince himself to stay in the race.

Perhaps Trump has realized that he’d take a significant pay cut as president, which isn’t as much of a joke as reality. To Trump, money is the ultimate motivator, and (as he enjoys reminding us) he’s poured a lot of his own cash into this campaign. During this speech in Beaumont, Trump made his thoughts on the Paris terrorist attacks known. He believes that France’s strong gun control laws did nothing to deter the attackers, and he says that armed civilians could have helped diffuse the situation:

“When you look at Paris, toughest gun laws in the world, nobody had guns but the bad guys. 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. 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.”

This isn’t the only occasion Trump has used a tragedy to further his own agenda, and it certainly isn’t the first time he criticized gun control in France. Following the January Charlie Hebdo attacks, Trump tweeted, “Isn’t it interesting that the tragedy in Paris took place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?”

Trump’s tweet lit up the Internet and even stirred up some ire from French ambassador Gerard Araud, who tweeted and deleted the following reply to Trump: “This message is repugnant in its lack of any human decency. Vulture.”

For Trump’s part, he had a fantastic time in Texas on Saturday, but what else should we expect to hear? He feeds upon controversy.