By Sopan Deb CBS News October 3, 2015, 7:42 PM
Donald Trump takes on gun control, mass shootings
FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- As the seemingly endless debate on gun control rages in the country in the wake of yet another mass shooting, GOP front-runner Donald Trump took the stage in Franklin, Tennessee, on Saturday and made his thoughts clear in front of a raucous crowd.
Trump said he was a staunch advocate of the Second Amendment and that any gun legislation that emerges as a result of mass shootings in the U.S. should be limited to addressing mental health.
He went as far as to imply that if teachers were armed at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, where nine people were killed on Thursday, the campus "would have been a hell of a lot better off."
"The Second Amendment of our Constitution is clear," Trump said, reading from his second policy paper on gun rights. "Every time something happens, they don't blame mental illness -- that our mental healthcare is out of whack and all of the other problems. And by the way, it was a gun-free zone. I will tell you -- if you had a couple of the teachers or somebody with guns in that room, you would have been a hell of a lot better off."