Donald Trump Thinks You Should Be Able To Bring Guns Anywhere, Except His Own Hotels

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Source: Think Progress

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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump regularly calls for getting rid of gun-free zones. However, if the real estate magnate is to succeed in his quest, he’ll have to start with places like Trump-branded hotels and golf courses.

For years, the New York businessman has boisterously voiced his opposition to gun-free zones. In a 2014 interview with the Washington Times, Trump criticized the Aurora theater where James Holmes massacred 12 people and injured 70 more for being a gun-free zone. “If some of the people in the movie theater had a gun, they’d have been shooting at him,” he said. “Nobody had a gun so they were totally defenseless.”

Getting rid of gun-free zones has also been a regular talking point for Trump on the campaign trail. “We have to get rid of that whole gun-free zone nonsense and just stop it,” Trump declared during a speech in Charleston, South Carolina on July 21. “We gotta stick up for the Second Amendment.” He made a similar call on Twitter days earlier following the shootings at two military centers that left five individuals, as well as the gunman, dead.

ThinkProgress spoke with a number of hotels and golf courses in the Trump empire and found that multiple locations were gun-free zones, even for guests with concealed-carry permits.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/05/3688084/donald-trump-hotels-gun-free-zones/

[George II]

1. What a freaking hypocrite he is!

He's been all over that San Francisco case about the woman who was shot, but I haven't heard a peep from him about the nine people in Charleston that were shot.

I just realized why - the woman in SF was white and was shot by a hispanic, the nine people in Charlestown were black and shot by a rightwing lily-white racist pig.

Never mind.

[KansDem]

3. "What a freaking hypocrite he is!"

GOP = "Gang Of hyPocrites"

[bucolic_frolic]

2. He may have to ban golf clubs too

http://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/royal-palm-beach/michael-rich-wellington-golfer-charged-with-attacking-2-men-with-putter-at-royal-palm-beach-course

[George II]

6. Trump better not let Bill Spackler get a look at that gopher on his head....

[KansDem]

4. Is someone trimming his hair in that photo?

I guess it's a camera...

[Ilsa]

5. He may not be able to allow them in his businesses in Scotland.

What's the law there?

But he's a hypocrite for banning guns in his hotels and US businesses.

[SheilaT]

7. Doesn't the NRA not allow guns at their

conventions? Now THAT'S hypocrisy.

[Flyboy_451]

12. That's not exactly accurate...

The rule prohibiting firearms at the NRA National convention was put in place by the convention hall and/or local ordnance. This is common in most large venue convention centers and meeting places. I would hazard to guess that it is near impossible to find a facility large enough to the NRA comvention that does not have a similar rule in place.

[SheilaT]

13. It's still hypocrisy. And even worse coming from

the group that has never seen a gun it didn't like, nor a gun owner who shouldn't have a gun, no matter how crazy.

[Flyboy_451]

14. I see it more as irony than hypocrisy.

I'm no fan of the NRA or many of the stances that they take, just as I am no fan of misinformation being spread either. Repeating partial truths hurts any cause, particularly when it is easily shown.

You are of course, free and even encouraged, to voice opinions. I would simply warn that it can make an uphill struggle even more difficult.

[samsingh]

8. trump is a repug hypocrite after all

so if he truly believes more guns is safer bring them into his hotels. or let's admit to the lies that gun lovers tell.

[spiderpig]

9. Idiot. n/t

[Martin Eden]

10. In a dark movie theater, shots are fired. People start pulling out their guns ...

... and start shooting at people with guns.

Donald Trump should be there.

[ileus]

11. Isn't live valuable everywhere.....He sounds like any other 2A regressive.

[Sunlei]

15. Love how Donald Trump uses the "KISS Principle" on the republicans who need it most.

'The Donald' is a master at playing to his audience.

No notes, no Aids whispering in his ear, no prompters- its all Donald Trump the voice of the Republican Party, live and uncensored.