Posted on 8/5/2019, 3:43:45 PM by RoosterRedux
President Trump called Monday for reforms at the intersection of mental health and gun laws -- including so-called "red flag laws" to take guns from those deemed a public risk -- in the wake of back-to-back mass shootings over the weekend that left at least 29 people dead.
“Our nation is overcome with shock, horror and sorrow,” Trump said, in solemn remarks from the White House. “We are outraged and sickened by this monstrous evil.”
In unequivocal terms, the president also condemned white supremacy, responding to reports that the shooter in El Paso wrote a racist manifesto.
"In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy,” Trump said, standing beside Vice President Pence. “These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hatred has no place in America.”
The president notably did not call for explicit changes to gun laws beyond red flag laws, despite tweeting earlier Monday morning about the possibility of linking background check legislation to immigration reform. However, he said he is open and ready to listen to ideas "that will actually work."
Among his list of proposals, Trump called for reforms to mental health laws "to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence," adding that we must "make sure those people not only get treatment but when necessary, involuntary confinement."
“Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun," Trump said, going on to call for red-flag laws to allow the seizure of firearms from those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety.
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He’s robbing the Left of issues that they might use in their 2020 campaigns.
Who gets to decide? The FBI.President AOC?
This is not just no. I won’t vote for a 2A infringement... It is the only right we have to ensure we keep the rest of them.
More knee-jerk, unworkable proposals.
The fear has always been that reforming mental health protections for public safety would result in the accidental and/or wrongful detainment of people who do not have mental health issues, and potentially also taking a hit to their reputation, but I think we have gone past the point where there is a well-established pattern. MANY of these perpetrators clearly showed disturbing signs in advance of their actions.
They need to build very strict privacy protections into mental health screening programs, but they are clearly needed.
They're already using it. Why gift-wrap it?
So, when are being a Republican or a Christian going to be deemed “red flags”?
So if be co-opts all the Left’s issues and runs on them he wins? How does that work. Those on the Left won’t vote for him regardless and he’ll alienate his base. Haven’t we seen this movie before? Republicans try to run as slightly better democrats. It never ends well
I guess Trump wants to lose next year, and start a civil war besides. “Red Flag Laws” mean “No White Person Needs a Gun” to Demonrats. COME AND TAKE THEM, if you can.
Jim just yanked a thread that started as a mental health breakdown vanity asking for a 10 round magazine limit.
The poster’s name is the biggest irony.
If Trump does this he has sold his soul to the deep state. I think Trump made a deal with the DOJ to lay off him, but in turn, he has to let the police state agencies screw the little people.
The FBI is deep state.
It started in my local school district a year and a half ago.
They hire teachers now only if they have SPED certification.
Public school teachers come out of leftist teachers' colleges.
If the President signs on to red flag laws I can guarantee he will not be reelected. He needs to back peddle on any gun control in a big hurry.
The El Paso nut made one comment about immigration. The rest of his screed sounded like Antifa / AOC nonsense.
BINGO!
To what should be the chagrin of all Constitutional patriots, this is a Teflon coated slippery slope.
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His domestic policies are quite different from his foreign policies. Gun grabber trump or gun grabber anyone would not get my vote.
They win if this is true. Not just 2020.. rhey win until we take back our country in blood.
I think he’s gone to the poker table, and knows that the Democrats absolutely won’t deal with immigration reform attached to gun/mental health reform.
They can talk about this for maybe two weeks, before the Democrats just say ‘no’ to any immigration or mental health reform being part of this deal. Then the discussion will fall apart.
I figured that thread would be yanked.
Mr. Robinson was probably as ticked off at that thread as the rest of us are / were.
and there is the heart of the problem
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