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7:42Now PlayingFollowing another tragic movie theater shooting, Rick Perry is calling for more people to buy guns and bring them to movie theaters. Despite the mountain of data showing that fewer guns lead to fewer murders, Republicans always want more. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"On Sunday, Rick Perry attempted to stand out from the (already spectacularly incompetent) pool of GOP hopefuls with one of the dumbest responses to the Lafayette shooting yet. In an interview with CNN, the Texas governor said that “it makes a lot of sense” to allow more people to carry guns into gun-free zones like movie theaters.
From Perry’s interview:
I will suggest to you that these concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country, who have appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms, to carry them."*
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