Trump: It Would've Been a 'Beautiful Sight' if Someone Shot the Orlando Killer 'Right Smack Between the Eyes

Donald Trump discussed the Orlando massacre in bold language Friday night, telling supporters in Dallas, if someone in the Pulse nightclub had a gun, they could have shot the "son of a bitch" who killed 49 and injured dozens more.

A boisterous Trump, speaking to thousands of shouting fans, said it would have been a "beautiful sight" if one of the victims could have shot radicalized Muslim Omar Mateen "right smack between the eyes."

Trump on if Orlando victims had guns: It would've been a "beautiful sight" if someone shot that "son of a bitch" https://t.co/3szP2f6GCg

— Tré Goins-Phillips (@tregp) June 18, 2016

"If we had people, where the bullets were going in the opposite direction, right smack between the eyes of this maniac," Trump said while pointing his finger right between his own eyes.

"If some of those wonderful people had guns strapped ... right to their waist or right to their ankle," the presumptive GOP nominee continued, "and this son of a bitch comes out and starts shooting, and one of the people in that room happened to have it, and goes 'boom, boom' — you know what, that would've been a beautiful sight."

Trump's comments come as Democrats and Republicans are sharply divided as to how the U.S. needs to respond to the deadly Orlando shooting.

While many liberals — including President Barack Obama — are renewing calls for increased gun control, conservatives are slamming the commander in chief for not taking a stronger stance against the War on Terror.

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