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A reminder of how Trump used revisionism to roll back his Orlando shooting second amendment comments
This is what Trump said after the Orlando nightclub shooting as part of his position that everyone should have guns in all locations:
“It’s too bad that some of the young people that were killed over the weekend didn’t have guns attached to their [hip], frankly, where bullets could have flown in the opposite direction. It sounded like there were no guns. They had a security guard; other than that, there were no guns in the room. Had people been able to fire back, it would have been a much different outcome.”
It is clear from this that he was talking about "the young people that were killed." It is clear that he is saying there were no guns, other than the security guard, and they should have been been armed and able to fire back.
After the fact, Donald Trump revised his statement to:
“When I said that if, within the Orlando club, you had some people with guns, I was obviously talking about additional guards or employees,”
Like his statement about second amendment people stopping Hillary Clinton, it is clear that he knew what he was saying, and his revision of what he said shows his cowardice in not being able to own and take responsibility for his own words.
Source of quotes:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/20/donald-trump-i-was-obviously-talking-about-additio/
