Trump: ‘Extreme gun vetting’ would not have prevented Texas shooting (VIDEO)

By Christen Smith

President Trump said “extreme gun vetting” would not have prevented the mass shooting at a Texas church over the weekend.
Trump made the statement during a press conference Tuesday in Seoul after NBC reporter Ali Vitali questioned if the president would consider applying “extreme vetting” to potential gun owners — an obvious reference to Trump’s immediate response to the country’s immigration policies after a radicalized Muslim mowed people down on a New York running path.
“If you did what you’re suggesting, there would have been no difference three days ago,” Trump said.  “And you might not have had that very brave person, who happened to have a gun or a rifle in his truck, go out and shoot him and hit him and neutralize him.”
Investigators say the accused gunman dropped a rifle in front of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas after an armed neighbor confronted him, ending the attack Sunday that killed 26 people and wounded 20 others. Police later found the gunman inside his car a few miles away from the church, dead from a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head.
“I can only say this,” Trump said. “If he (neighbor) didn’t have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, we would have had hundreds

Source: Guns.com