Posted on 02/28/2018 1:08:37 PM PST by DoodleDawg
President Donald Trump criticized police for not doing more to prevent a mass shooting at a Florida high school, arguing they should have taken the shooter’s guns away “whether they had the right or not.”
During a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on gun control Thursday, Trump suggested guns should be taken away “immediately from people that you can judge easily are mentally ill,” alluding to the Florida shooter, who had undergone a psychiatric evaluation in 2016 but was ultimately not hospitalized.
“The police saw that he was a problem, they didn’t take any guns away,” Trump said. “Now that could have been policing, but they should have taken them away anyway, whether they had the right or not.”
He doubled down on the claim later in the meeting after Vice President Mike Pence spoke about due process and giving local law enforcement more leeway to obtain a court order to collect firearms from potentially dangerous people.
“Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court, because that’s another system,” Trump said. “A lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early.”
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He’s moving the conversation towards the fact that the mentally ill were released upon society and they get to decide if they want treatment or not - the insane get to call the shots because the laws say they can only be detained for very short periods and doctors are scared to death to insist they are nuts enough to require being held and treated because of lawsuits. I’ve seen it in action regarding a person who really needed help being allowed to decide crawling around in her own feces and being so out of her head she didn’t know close friends (on numerous occasions) didn’t mean she needed help
Apparently the killer wrote letters, notes etc saying he was a threat to himself and others. This amounts to a felony in FL according to the female NRA spokesperson I heard on FOX this morning and provided due process to effectively arrest him and confiscate guns - however, the sheriff did not do anything.
Then the people in the system failed. The answer isn’t to ignore the law and the Constitution.
Agreed
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