Donald Trump says it's time for the U.S. to 'start thinking about' racial profiling

Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. needs to consider racial profiling as a preventative measure against terrorist attacks.

"Well, I think profiling is something that we're going to have to start thinking about as a country," he said on Face the Nation. "Other countries do it, you look at Israel and you look at others, they do it and they do it successfully. And I hate the concept of profiling but we have to start using common sense and we have to use our heads. It's not the worst thing to do." To stop attacks like the massacre in Orlando from happening, Trump believes people need to report anything they view as suspicious about their friends, relatives, and neighbors. "When you look at people within the Muslim community and where people are living and they don't report, and a good example of that would be San Bernardino," he said. "I mean, they had bombs all over their apartment floor and people saw it and nobody reported them, and 14 people were killed, many injured."

Trump also said he's working with the NRA to develop a policy that would ban those on the no-fly list from purchasing guns, adding, "The NRA has the best interests of our country, it just has the absolute best interests of our country."

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