Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has come under criticism for his response to the massacre in Oregon. Speaking Friday afternoon, Bush said “stuff happens.”
Jeb Bush: “We’re in a difficult time in our country, and I don’t think more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everybody else. It’s just — it’s very sad to see. But I resist the notion, and I did — I had this challenge as governor, because we had — look, stuff happens. There’s always a crisis, and the impulse is always to do something, and it’s not necessarily the right thing to do.”
Fellow Republican presidential contender Donald Trump also argued against gun control in the wake of the Oregon shooting, saying on NBC’s Meet the Press mass shooters are “geniuses in a certain way. They are going to be able to break the system.”