President Donald Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office about the Florida State University (FSU) attack and noted, “The gun doesn’t do the shooting, the people do.”
Breitbart News reported that the FSU attack occurred around midday Thursday, with six innocents injured and two killed. The alleged shooter turned out to be the 20-year-old son of a Leon County, Florida, sheriff’s deputy.
Trump was speaking on the generalities of the attack when he said, “I am a big advocate of the Second Amendment. I have been from the beginning. I protected it.”
He then spoke directly about the FSU attack, “These things are terrible, but the gun doesn’t do the shooting, the people do.”
Thank you for protecting the Second Amendment today, Mr. President. https://t.co/CSwYLVibzK pic.twitter.com/Gxwla2CI5o
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) April 17, 2025
Trump went on to say, “We will have more to say about [the FSU attack] later,” and a reporter responded by asking, “What do you mean when you say, there will be more to say about it?”
He answered, “Only in terms of what happened. As far as legislation is concerned, this has been going on for a long time. I have an obligation to protect the Second Amendment. I ran on the Second Amendment, among many other things, and I will always protect the Second Amendment.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, a Pulsar Night Vision pro-staffer, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly:
