Donald Trump: I carry gun to protect myself

 “Sometimes, I will tell you, I feel much better being armed,” Trump told CBS News on Sunday.
 
Last week, the New York billionaire announced during an election rally that he has a concealed-weapon permit.
 
“I have a license to carry [a gun] in New York — can you believe that? Nobody knows that,” Trump said. “Somebody attacks me, they’re going to be shocked.”
 
Trump said on Sunday he acquired the license several years ago because “I like to have myself protected.”
 
Trump has been trying to gain the support of people who back the Second Amendment to the US Constitution in the wake of the deadly shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon, earlier this month. The Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
 
On October 1, Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer opened fire inside a classroom at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killing his English professor and eight others. Several people were also wounded. The 26-year-old shooter brought at least six guns and five ammunition magazines to the school.
 
“Had somebody in that room had a gun, the result would’ve been better,” Trump said. “I think that if you had the teacher, assuming they knew how to use the weapon, which hopefully they would, you would’ve been a lot better when this maniac walked into class, starting to shoot people.”
 
A day after the killing, Trump told CNN that such massacres will not stop because mentally ill people will “slip through the cracks” regardless of the law.
 
“This isn’t a gun problem; this is a mental problem,” he said. “It’s not a question of the laws; it’s really the people.”
 
“Guns, no guns — it doesn’t matter,” Trump said last week. “You have people that are mentally ill. And they’re going to come through the cracks. And they’re going to do things that people will not even believe are possible.”
 
Following the Oregon shooting, the United Nations asked Washington to take measures to reduce gun violence.
 
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned about the high death toll that US gun violence is inflicting on American lives.
 
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), firearms are the cause of death for more than 33,000 people in the United States every year, a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides.
 
That means firearms kill more people in America every six hours than terrorist attacks did in the entire year of 2014.
 
Moreover, over 73,000 Americans were treated in hospitals for gun-related injuries in 2010, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
 
This year is on course to break records. There have been a total of 39,449 gun-related incidents and 9,940 deaths so far in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Of those, 550 were children under 13.