Anti-LGBT failed presidential candidate and former Senator Rick Santorum believes that students demanding sensible gun legislation would be better served by taking CPR classes.
“How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that,” Santorum said while appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“They took action to ask someone to pass a law,” Santorum continued. “They didn’t take action to say, ‘How do I, as an individual, deal with this problem? How am I going to do something about stopping bullying within my own community? What am I going to do to actually help respond to a shooter?’”
“Those are the kind of things where you can take it internally, and say, ‘Here’s how I’m going to deal with this,” he continued. “Here’s how I’m going to help the situation,’ instead of going and protesting and saying, ‘Oh, someone else needs to pass a law to protect me.'”
Santorum also asserted that he’s proud of students, but noted that “I think everyone should be responsible and deal with the problems that we have to confront in our lives. And ignoring those problems and saying they’re not going to come to me and saying some phony gun law is gonna solve it. Phony gun laws don’t solve these problems.”
Just yesterday, hundreds of thousands of students across the globe marched for their lives in solidarity with one another. In Washington D.C. alone, an estimated 200,000 people attended the March for Our Lives demonstration.
You can watch some of his commentary below:
Twitter quickly reacted to Santorum’s take: