Pittsburgh Mayor Wants Gun Reform: ''Armed Guards Not The Answer''

As he left for a campaign rally in Illinois yesterday, US President Donald Trump commented on the Saturday Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh claiming that houses of worship should perhaps consider having armed guards.

POTUS stated: “If they had protection inside, the results would have been far better. If they had some kind of protection within the temple it could have been a much better situation. They didn’t.”

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, a Democrat, still reeling from the deadly attack on a synagogue that left 11 worshipers dead, on Sunday responded to the President’s suggestion, stating: “I don’t think that the answer to this problem is solved by having our synagogues, mosques, and churches filled with armed guards or our schools filled with armed guards.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mayor Bill Peduto: “I think the approach that we need to be looking at is how to take the guns – which is the common denominator of every mass shooting in America – out of the hands of those that are looking to express hatred through murder” <a href="https://t.co/eOEXoUMhS0">pic.twitter.com/eOEXoUMhS0</a></p>&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1056541476304363520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Peduto claimed: “I think we’re dealing with an irrational person who acted irrationally. And trying to create laws around that is not the way that we should govern.”

Instead, the mayor thought gun control laws should be toughened.

“I think the approach we need to be looking at is how we take the guns – which is the common denominator in every mass shooting in America – out of the hands of those that are looking to express hatred through murder.”

Just as in the aftermath of every recent mass shooting in the US mainland, the call for gun reform will once again dominate headlines in the coming days.

Meanwhile, the White House stated that the President planned to travel to Pittsburgh, but did not release specific details. Asked whether he believes Mr. Trump should meet with the families of the 11 victims, Mayor Peduto said: “That’s really up to the families themselves.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“I don&#39;t think that the answer to this problem is solved by having our synagogues, mosques &amp; churches or schools filled w armed guards. We should try to stop irrational behavior from happening at the forefront.&quot; Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SquirrelHill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SquirrelHill</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TreeOfLifeSynagogue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TreeOfLifeSynagogue</a> <a href="https://t.co/J0r3q66KlT">pic.twitter.com/J0r3q66KlT</a></p>&mdash; Khary Penebaker, Fx (@kharyp) <a href="https://twitter.com/kharyp/status/1056572837249474561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2018</a></blockquote>

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“You know, we’re going to be working together as we have. We’ve had good cooperation from the state and the governor. And, you know, this is a conservative synagogue, so the funerals will be very quickly. As soon as tomorrow. So that’s really up to the families and whether they would want the president to be here.”

The Democrat Mayor also confirmed he had spoken directly to the President about the tragedy, in what he referred to as a ‘cordial’ conversation: “We basically talked about the horrific tragedy.”

“I was able to share with him the details of just how bad it had been. And he basically said that any resources that would be necessary would be given. And right now there are federal officials from the FBI coming from all parts of the country to help Pittsburgh.”

Source:

https://www.today.com/news/pittsburgh-mayor-bill-peduto-speaks-out-after-synagogue-shooting-t140780

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