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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,
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Dems have a hissy fit. This is too much common sense
I’m for a thorazine patch. Just slap that baby on a bitchy mood and your anger just drools away.
Right. This needs to be said over and over again.
That would cover every Ogabe voter.
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
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.
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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.
I thought controversial flags was the cause.
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.
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
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.
...”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.
Hell hath no fury like a bitchy racist faggot scorned. The killer would have done whatever it took to satisfy his bloodlust.
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.
Gun control? I’m for denying black, gay, democrats the right to own guns. . . . . .
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.
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.
I'm with you, but the NRA will fight that tooth and nail.
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