Last week's shooting at the Umpqua Community College showed frustration on President Obama's side as he pushes for more gun control laws. However, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has a vastly different idea.

Speaking to his supporters in Franklin, Tennessee, Trump said that more guns could have prevented the tragedy from happening. "It was a gun-free zone.... I'll tell you, if you had a couple of the teachers or someone with guns in that room, you would have been a hell of a lot better off," he said.

While his view sounded a bit drastic, he is not the first to suggest such a thing. The Christian Science Monitor noted that after a shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in 2012, the National Rifle Association called for armed guards for public schools.

NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said at the time that keeping schools gun-free "tell[s] every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk."

"How have our nation's priorities gotten so far out of order?" he lamented.

However, The Huffington Post reported that Trump does not agree that gun laws are to blame for the high number of mass shootings in the United States, noting that states with strict gun laws like Chicago and Baltimore are still subject to high rates of gun-related violence.

However, Trump has already been a strong gun-rights supporter, based on the position paper that the GOP Presidential candidate released last month. According to CNN, Trump said on the paper that "The right of self-defense doesn't stop at the end of your driveway. That's why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of Americans do too. That permit should be valid in all 50 states."

Trump does not think that he can put and end to all mass shootings, should he become president, though. He acknowledged on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", "You're going to have these things happen and it's a horrible thing to behold, horrible."

Trump claimed, "Guns, no guns, it doesn't matter. You have people that are mentally ill. And they're gonna come through the cracks." According to the Department of Health and Human Services, this theory is wrong. The department noted that people with mental illness are no more likely to commit acts of violence than any normal human being, committing only 3% to 5% of all incidents.

However, the real estate mogul did have a point for everyone to ponder. Trump told CNN, "This isn't a gun problem, this is a mental problem. It's not a question of the laws, it's really the people."

What do you think?