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An Associated Press news story published on April 20, 2007, on Pantograph.com:
Huckabee favors concealed gun policy
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said a concealed handgun carried by a faculty member or student at Virginia Tech might have reduced the toll from Monday's shooting spree by a student.
"If somebody had been able to stop the shooter before he was able to kill that many people, there may not have been that many," the former Arkansas governor said Thursday in an interview with radio station KUAR at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in response to a question about carrying concealed weapons.
A longtime hunter, Huckabee has spoken publicly before about his support for concealed-weapon permits - and his own license to carry.
Seung-Hui Cho, 23, killed 32 people Monday on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life.
Huckabee stressed that a renewed debate over gun control is not the proper reaction to the Virginia Tech deaths. He said the nation instead should discuss mental health issues - particularly how an obviously sick young man managed to slip through the cracks.
"What was really most troubling about this situation was not just his choice of mayhem in terms of a weapon, but more disturbing was the fact that here was a clearly mentally person who was exhibiting many, many signs and he still slipped through the system and was able to do this," Huckabee told the radio station by telephone from New Hampshire, where he is campaigning.
Huckabee cautioned against using tragedy as a springboard to "take away" the rights of others.
Huckabee favors concealed gun policy
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said a concealed handgun carried by a faculty member or student at Virginia Tech might have reduced the toll from Monday's shooting spree by a student.
"If somebody had been able to stop the shooter before he was able to kill that many people, there may not have been that many," the former Arkansas governor said Thursday in an interview with radio station KUAR at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in response to a question about carrying concealed weapons.
A longtime hunter, Huckabee has spoken publicly before about his support for concealed-weapon permits - and his own license to carry.
Seung-Hui Cho, 23, killed 32 people Monday on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life.
Huckabee stressed that a renewed debate over gun control is not the proper reaction to the Virginia Tech deaths. He said the nation instead should discuss mental health issues - particularly how an obviously sick young man managed to slip through the cracks.
"What was really most troubling about this situation was not just his choice of mayhem in terms of a weapon, but more disturbing was the fact that here was a clearly mentally person who was exhibiting many, many signs and he still slipped through the system and was able to do this," Huckabee told the radio station by telephone from New Hampshire, where he is campaigning.
Huckabee cautioned against using tragedy as a springboard to "take away" the rights of others.