Rick Perry: Movie Theaters Should Not Be Gun-Free Zones
The recent mass shootings, Perry argued, were the result of poor enforcement of existing laws.
Rick Perry, former governor of Texas, speaks during an event to formally announce his presidential campaign in a hangar at Addison Airport in Addison, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, June 4, 2015.
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In the wake of two recent mass shootings, Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Sunday he does not support declaring certain public spaces "gun-free zones."
"I would suggest to you that these concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea," the former Texas governor said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. "I think that you allow the citizens of this country who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms to carry them."