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The mogul also doled out some parenting advice, telling a young man to keep his future kids away from drugs and alcohol.

“I had a friend who went to the Wharton School of Finance with me,” Trump explained, recalling his friend’s attempts to develop a taste for fine Scotch. He “became a massive alcoholic,” Trump continued. “Developed the taste all right. Lost his family. Lost his home. Brilliant guy lost everything because of alcohol.\"

Trump told the New Hampshire crowd that he abstains from drinking, and that his children, for the most part, do as well. In what Trump has called a defining moment, his brother died from alcoholism over three decades ago.

The night wasn’t all warm and fuzzy. Trump devoted much of his remarks to terrorism, reiterating his claim that recent attacks in Paris could have been prevented with looser gun laws.

Holding his fingers in the shape of a pistol, the candidate described the scene as a grisly series of executions by ISIS.

Trump starts remarks off by talking about the massacre in Paris: \"Move over, boom. Move over, boom,\" he says, holding fingers like a gun.

— Brad Mielke (@TheBradMielke) December 2, 2015

“Move over, boom. Move over, boom,” he repeated. “Nobody could protect themselves.” He asked a man in the crowd to stand up.

“If that guy happens to be in the crowd, and if he had a gun,” Trump suggested, “they would have had a couple of killings. But they wouldn’t have been the good guys -- they would have been the bad guys.”

Trump continued to stand by his claims that he saw American Muslims celebrating in the streets of New Jersey on September 11, 2001, despite an absence of video footage to support his recollections.

“I took a lot of heat from the press when I said we have to be vigilant with the mosques,” Trump told the enthusiastic crowd. “We have to be very vigilant. Something really dangerous is going on.”

During remarks about Asia, young man cuts in to say we bombed Japan. Trump snaps back: they bombed Pearl Harbor! pic.twitter.com/pUvw99mw3T

— Brad Mielke (@TheBradMielke) December 2, 2015

Naval veteran David Marsters told ABC News he will definitely vote for Trump.

“He says things like I say them,” Marsters said. “He’s the greatest.”

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