On December 16 , 2012 , two days after the Sandy Hook shootings , Gohmert appeared on Fox News Sunday and suggested that the tragedy would have never happened had the teachers been armed . He told host Chris Wallace , " I wish to God that she principal Dawn L. Hochsprung had an M4 in her office , locked up so when she heard gunfire , she pulls it out ... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids . " He claimed that the 20 victims who had been killed with a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle had " defensive wounds "
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