Posted on 08/04/2019 5:57:09 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'If you look at both of these cases, this is mental illness': Trump blames El Paso and Dayton mass shootings on mental health of the gunmen - and promises additional action on Monday
Donald Trump said Sunday 'more has to be done' to prevent mass shootings.
In his first public statement since two mass shooting rocked El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, the president pledged to take action, saying, 'Hate has no place in our country, and we're going to take care of it.'
Trump told a small group of reporters that 'a lot of things are in the works' before boarding Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey.
'We have done much more than most administrations,' Trump contended. 'But we've done, actually, a lot, but perhaps more has to be done.'
Trump said he has been speaking with Attorney General William Barr Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray, as well as lawmakers and local leaders, and would be making a lengthier statement on Monday morning.
He indicated his administration is considering additional action, potentially aimed at addressing the problem of mental illness.
'We have to get it stopped. This has been going on for years,' Trump said alongside first lady Melania Trump. 'So thank you very much, and I will be making a statement tomorrow at about 10:00, and I'll see you there.'
The president answered a single question from reporters on the tarmac in New Jersey, where he spends his summer weekends, related to his admission that more more must be done to prevent gun violence. He did not outline specific action he plans to take.
He brought up mental illness, saying the shooters, both white men in their early 20s, were deranged.
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Mass murderers are not neccesarilly targetting people but an idea or a location.
Why would someone shoot up a school of kids?
In my opinion, it is the school (which really translates into the school system ) that is being targetted.
Even bullying. The school (system) didn’t protect the shooter.
I think investigators should shift their focus from a person to the location or program that was targetted.
A team of doctors, a review board. It should never be one person.
What worries me is his going along with his FBI’s “precrime” social media searching, particularly now that conservative views are being labeled as problematic.
Even a ‘review board’ wouldn’t be safe from ‘political getback’ decisions.
And what legal recourse would an innocent person have?
Set up a system. Look the police had 27 incidents about the School shooter, The Dayton shooter was expelled because he wrote a list. I think any board should be made up of a couple of doctors, police, at least 2 NRA members or GOA members. No way should this be a casual decision, but the members need to understand that lives on all sides are at stake.
You’re making the erroneous assumption that ‘the system’ would actually work to disarm the nutjobs.
Not at all.
The ‘system’, as designed, would ensure the left could disarm anyone they want at any time they choose.
Ask the Venezuelans (and cubans, and mainland chinese and ...) how many lives have been lost vs a few nutjob shooters...
Most shrinkydinks think even wanting to own a gun is a sign of mental illness...
Then change it! Good God, this is America. Get active and make sure people are protected. I would prefer we had mental institutions to take care of these nut jobs but the same problems would apply to that.
Precisely.
The long march through the institutions is largely complete.
Relying on ANY of those institutions to ‘make sure people are protected’ is servile infantilism at best.
A team of doctors, a review board. It should never be one person.
ya, I don’t trust any of that.
Name one group of doctors or a government review board you trust with your safety.
Yep... Thought so... I won’t be 86 until November...
At some point the swamp redefines lunatics as Christians and dangerous hotheads as Conservatives or Constitutionalists.
Also, the psychiatrist labeled the Texas shooter as “no danger to himself or society.”
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