Huckabee: We Don’t Have A Gun Problem, ‘We Have A Problem With Sin And Evil’

Mike Huckabee believes guns aren’t the problem, morality is.

On CNN this morning, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee claimed that America doesn’t have a gun problem as much as “we have a problem with sin and evil.”

Huckabee, whose own home state of Arkansas has the fifth-highest rate of gun deaths in the U.S., continued, called it “a matter of evil, it’s a matter of culture in which some people, this guy for example, wanted to be famous.

“Whether it’s a pressure cooker or whether it’s a gun, we’re dealing with people who are either deranged or they’re very focused because they want to kill people in the name of terrorism,” Huckabee told host Alisyn Camerota.

“We could stop most of the car wrecks if we restricted speeds down to 25 miles per hour. There would be very few car accidents if no care was allowed to go faster than 25 miles per hour,” Huckabee offered, not for once thinking that less speed reduces car deaths, and less guns is an option to help reduce gun deaths.

Huckabee also said that passing laws doesn’t prevent violent crime.

“There is no law which prevents people from doing things that are violent. There are a lot of crimes that nobody sees coming until it’s too late.”

Raw Story’s David Edwards notes that, “Instead of restricting the ability of people to get firearms, Huckabee argued that more guns should be allowed on campuses.”

“Every one of these shootings happened in a gun free zone,” Huckabee falesly stated, similar to the false claim Rush Limbaugh made today. “We can say we’re going to have more gun free zones but that ends up being the worst thing because it just gives the shooter real confidence that he walks into that environment and he’s the only one armed.”

The UCC campus was not a gun-free zone, and in fact there was at least one student on the scene, a veteran, who was armed.

“Seven hundred people a year get killed because somebody beats them up with their fist,” the Republican presidential candidate claimed. “We don’t make a big deal out of that because there’s a lot of people that get killed in a lot of ways, but a gun crime gets most of the attention.”

On average, 32,514 people in America every year are shot and killed by a firearm. That’s 89 people every day, including more than seven children each day between the ages of 0 and 19. Those are the people who die by guns. Annually, about three times that number, 108,476, are shot with a gun.

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Image: Screenshot via CNN/Twitter
Hat tip and video: David Edwards at Raw Story