In a phone interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, Donald Trump dismissed the idea that stricter gun control could have prevented the horrific on-air shooting of a WDBJ reporter and cameraman Wednesday.

Trump immediately pointed to the apparent mental instability of the killer, a former WDBJ employee who wrote in a 23-page "manifesto" that he was targeting the white reporter and cameraman because he was supposedly "attacked for being a gay, black man" and felt the need to respond to the racially motivated Charleston church massacre.

When Cuomo asked the Republican frontrunner if he would "do something different with gun policy," Trump replied, "I don't think I would," adding, "because this is a really sick person."

"This isn’t a gun problem, this is a mental problem," said Trump.

Trump later pointed out that the shooter "snuck up on them" so he could have murdered this "with a gun or a knife or whatever.

"You’re not going to get rid of all guns," said Trump, who underscored that he's a "Second Amendment person."

"I know one thing: If you tried to do it, the bad guys would have them…and the good folks would abide by the law," he told Cuomo. "They'd be hopeless, and it would just be a hopeless situation for them."

The billionaire business mogul also argued for the potential good that can come of responsible citizens carrying guns. As an example, he cited the apparent terror attack thwarted by three heroic Americans and a few other passengers on a Paris-bound train last Friday. Had the men involved been armed, he suggested, they would have been even more capable of defending the other passengers.

H/T TheBlaze.