Dana Loesch Goes Off Over Obama’s Response to Oregon College Shooting: ‘Gun-Free Zones Are Criminal Protection Areas’

TheBlaze TV host Dana Loesch sounded off over President Barack Obama's response to the Oregon college shooting on Thursday, blasting gun-free zones as "criminal protection areas."

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Loesch spoke with Fox News' Megyn Kelly just hours after Obama delivered a statement from the White House calling for stricter gun control measures in the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, that left 10 people dead and seven more injured.

"Gun-free zones are criminal protection areas and that's what we usually see. It's all right there. You can't refute numbers. You cannot refute the statistics," Loesch said in response to the president's remarks.

After the shooting, Obama told reporters that states with the most gun laws tend to see less gun violence, while states with fewer gun laws usually see more gun violence. The president also called for the U.S. to adopt similar gun laws as Australia and the United Kingdom — "countries like ours."

However, Loesch pointed out, Australia banned and even confiscated some guns after the Port Arthur shooting massacre in 1996 left 35 people dead, according to the Federalist. And in the United Kingdom, Loesch said there are still beheadings – and shootings – that take in the European country, despite its strict gun laws.

Watch the exchange below:

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