“The vast majority of gun violence is not attributable to mental illness.”
Nobody, including Trump, ever said it was. Gang bangers in Chicago are not mentally ill, they’re just criiminals. But every single school shooter - which was that Trump was talking about - has proven to be mentally ill or shown to have a history either of treatment or referrals to treatment long before they got to the shooting or bomb-building stage.
To make it worse, Florida has a law that makes it virtually impossible to get these kids out of the classroom or even out of the school so no matter how much trouble they cause and how many “warning signs” there are in the years leading up to the shooting, the schools are unable to protect their students.
We need to discuss not only getting the mentally ill out of the schools, but providing involuntary long-term residential treatment. This kid, Nicolaus, had a long history of violent behavior, including beating his mother; the police had been called 39 times. So clearly just sending them home is not the solution.
+1.