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Trump: Fix 'Massive Problem' of Mentally Ill, Let Gun Owners Be
Newsmax ^ | August 27,2015 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 08/27/2015 10:35:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Mental illness is "a massive problem," GOP front-runner Donald Trump said Thursday, one day after two Virginia journalists were brutally murdered by a disgruntled former co-worker, but he does not believe there is any need to get rid of guns.

"If you try to do it, the bad guys would have them," Trump told CNN's "New Day" host Chris Cuomo, saying that instead, the focus should be on solving the mental health issues.

Former reporter Bryce Williams, whose legal name is Vester Flanagan, killed himself Wednesday afternoon after shooting to death TV reporter Alison Parker and her cameraman, Adam Ward, during a live broadcast for WDBJ-TV station in Roanoke, Virginia.

"He was definitely borderline and would have been and should have been institutionalized at some point," Trump said Thursday morning. "I wish people closest to him would have seen it, but people are being released now because they don't have any money ... this was a very sick man.

"And it's just too bad that we can't figure these things out beforehand. I mean, everybody sees the signals but nobody thinks a thing like this could happen."

But still, he said, it's a dilemma about what to do with the mentally ill.

"What are you going to do, put them in jail for the rest of their life?" Trump said. "There were lawsuits and litigation on all sorts of things with him. And he just blew up. He knew he was going to blow up, too, based on his memos and notes."

But Trump said he is not sure gun control laws would have helped.

"He snuck up on them, whether it was a gun or a knife or whatever it would have been, it would have been something," Trump said. "I'm a very much 2nd Amendment person,

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; blackracism; guncontrol; hatecrime; mentalhealth; racism; secondamendment; trump; trumpcomment; vester; vesterleeflanagan
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1 posted on 08/27/2015 10:35:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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Dems have a hissy fit. This is too much common sense


2 posted on 08/27/2015 10:37:59 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Theorks for Hillary.y need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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I’m for a thorazine patch. Just slap that baby on a bitchy mood and your anger just drools away.


3 posted on 08/27/2015 10:38:37 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Hojczyk

Right. This needs to be said over and over again.


4 posted on 08/27/2015 10:38:38 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: Hojczyk

That would cover every Ogabe voter.


5 posted on 08/27/2015 10:39:37 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (DEPORT OBOLA VOTERS)
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Odd ...someone noted that this Vester jerk looked as though he had been using Steroids.

as I uderstand it Steroids can cause or exacerbate..some really nasty anger problems


6 posted on 08/27/2015 10:41:31 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Hojczyk

You purists, do you SEE why we like Trump?? Who else is going to say these truths?

Our problem with most gun violence IS mental illness. We are going to need a way to institutionalize people without their permission. Over the Cuckoo’s Nest be damned. Probably thousands of innocent people would be alive if we could have put away into decent institutions people who have lost touch with reality and show any sign of violence.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 10:41:40 AM PDT by Yaelle (The election isn't the main thing. Stopping the 2 party oligarchy and their media IS.)
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To: Hojczyk
Click The Pic
WTG! Donald Trump!

8 posted on 08/27/2015 10:41:48 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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I agree in principle, but when the government decides who is mentally competent, I can foresee problems. No one on this website would every be judged competent to own a firearm under a leftist administration. Politicization of psychiatry is a risk.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 10:42:49 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Hojczyk

I thought controversial flags was the cause.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 10:43:18 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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Problem is, who decides what constitutes mental illness? My belief is leftists won’t just look at what’s plainly crazy, and will politicize it to disarm people whose politics they don’t like.


11 posted on 08/27/2015 10:43:33 AM PDT by afsnco
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This is how the media reacted yesterday to this shooting..two journalists killed on air, “Please let the shooter be white, please, pretty please..we can blame it on the tea party, darn extremists” OH NOES the shooter is black DAMN IT, not only black, but a racist gay black man, OK GUN CONTROL IT IS


12 posted on 08/27/2015 10:43:37 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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We need to bring back the large institutional medical centers. Under HHS Sec Carson, I have no doubt they will be run smoothly and humanely, unlike the prisons they used to be.


13 posted on 08/27/2015 10:44:10 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: blackdog; MNGal

...”If you try to do it, the bad guys would have them,”...

Repeating this truth sends libs into apoplectic fits. After all, police can be there in minutes.


14 posted on 08/27/2015 10:44:24 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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Hell hath no fury like a bitchy racist faggot scorned. The killer would have done whatever it took to satisfy his bloodlust.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 10:45:41 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Being a free range mental patient is your constitutional right in modern America. Eventually you land in prison where the matter is moot. Prison is cheaper per head than a mental hospital.


16 posted on 08/27/2015 10:45:49 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Gun control? I’m for denying black, gay, democrats the right to own guns. . . . . .


17 posted on 08/27/2015 10:47:20 AM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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While Trump is one the correct side of this issue, we should be careful in defining mental illness and the government's role. If I were to define mental illness the baseline would be if an indivdual was a liberal. /s

But seriously, helping the mentally ill will not completely eliminate mass shootings. There is a cost to our rights and freedoms. We cannot expect perfection.

18 posted on 08/27/2015 10:50:10 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Do Not Vote for List: See my profile)
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To: afsnco

Well, the station owner said when he was fired he got so violent they had to call the police. I would say if someone has the police called on them for being violent that would be a necessary red flag for a mental health evaluation.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 10:52:03 AM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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I would say if someone has the police called on them for being violent that would be a necessary red flag for a mental health evaluation.

I'm with you, but the NRA will fight that tooth and nail.

20 posted on 08/27/2015 10:57:49 AM PDT by Wolfie
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