Trump on Obama’s Gun Exec Order: ‘Pretty Soon You Won’t Be Able to Get Guns’

CUOMO: “You mention bullets. The president is going to sign executive orders, he says. We’re going to find out more details about them. They do seem to be aimed at closing the gun show loophole. And putting more money into existing gun law enforcement. What is wrong with that?”
TRUMP: “Well, pretty soon you won’t be able to get guns. I mean, it’s another step in the way of not getting guns. And you know, the one thing that is just before we even get to that is the executive order concept. You know, it’s supposed to be negotiated. You’re supposed to cajole, get people in a room. You’re supposed to deal with them. You have Republicans. You have Democrats. You have all these people. They get elected to do this stuff. And you’re supposed to get together and pass a law. He doesn’t want to do that, because it’s too much work. So he doesn’t want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf.”
CUOMO: “What do you do when the other side doesn’t want to negotiate.”
TRUMP: “What you do is —“ 
CUOMO: “And you find something that you want to do that you think is right? Then what do you do?”
TRUMP: “He’s been away for two weeks playing golf. OK? You know, he’s not exactly trying very hard to get it done.” 
CUOMO: “All presidents go on vacation. You know that, Mr. Trump.” 
TRUMP: “He’s now just using the executive orders. And he said, you know, ‘Look, I’ll sign it. I’ll be out of here by the time the courts rule on all this stuff.’ Look at what happened at the border. He did an executive order a couple of years ago. And now the courts have — actually, amazingly, the courts have been on our side, meaning the people’s side. And they’ve —“
CUOMO: “Well, which side are you on? You’ve said in the past that there should be a quick period where people can figure out whether or not they need a gun. I think you commented 72 hours we should be able to tell. So you’re for background checks, right?” [crosstalk]
TRUMP: “— on the book. Right now there’s been tremendous laws put on the books already. And you know, nobody ever talks about the mental health aspect. The people that actually pull the trigger of the guns. They don’t talk about that, Chris. You know, all over the country, they’re closing up mental-health hospitals for budget reasons. And people don’t talk about that. They talk about the guns. If people in Paris had guns, you know what? You wouldn’t have had 130 people and many more to follow get killed. And if people in California had a couple of guns in that room, you wouldn’t have had 16 people killed, people laying in the hospital critically wounded.”
CUOMO: “We don’t know that. We don’t know that. You would like to believe that if people have guns they’d be able to defend themselves and that there’d be less killing.”
TRUMP: “At least we’d have a shot. They have no shot.” 
CUOMO: “No. Look, we understand.” 
TRUMP: “The people of Paris and in California had zero shot.” 
CUOMO: “We understand.” 
TRUMP: “Five soldiers that were killed in a gun-free zone, who are outstanding soldiers, one of them was one of the most highly decorated soldiers. And they had no — they were in a gun-free zone on a military base, and this wacko came in.”
CUOMO: “Right.” 
TRUMP: “And he had a gun.” 
CUOMO: “I was there. I was at Ft. Hood. I was at Ft. Hood.”