He certainly trumps most when it comes to mental health issues, methinks.Trump says it is a mental health issue, not a guns issue.
I find it fascinating that centuries after the Enlightenment with such abundant technology, that an advanced society can be dragged back the Guy Fawkes era through rumour, fundamentalism, denial of rational thought and the wilful spread of lies. The biggest surprise though is that a POTUS is himself an engine of it. When does the witch burning start?
Fair enough if he can keep guns away from people with mental health issues.
Newsweek:
"Every year, about 42.5 million American adults (or 18.2 percent of the total adult population in the United States) suffers from some mental illness, enduring conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, statistics released Friday reveal."
Quite staggering.
1. This is a "mental health" issue and not a terrorist issue. I.e. He is white Christian.
2. They use it as a positive reason for no gun controls as someone was able to fire back.
Nope, can't do that per the NRA.
Trump says it is a mental health issue, not a guns issue.
President Donald Trump, on a tour of Asia, said the gunman was "a very deranged individual" and denied that guns were to blame for the shooting.
"We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, but this isn't a guns situation," he said.
BBC
We've said it all before, it makes no difference. On this side of the pond we are just preaching to the choir. We know why it's happened, we know it will happen again and go on doing so until something changes.
Guns don't kill people. Mentally ill people, with guns kill people. Yebbut, mentally ill people with knives would kill fewer people.
Yep, agree. I'm sorry for those affected but it's a continuous fact of life in the US; these events will just carry on in much the same way with little or no reduction as long as things remain as they are, I'm presuming that Americans are comfortable with the slaughter or they'd react to it.
Fair enough if he can keep guns away from people with mental health issues.
I suspect there isn't a figure or a target bad enough that can change the minds of the gun lobby.
A primary school, a church, 600 shot by one man... Still nothing.
Just a case of wait till the next massacre.