File Photo: Rhino 500 handguns are on display at the National Rifle Association Annual Meetings and Exhibits on April 14, 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri.In recent years, in the immediate aftermath of high-profile mass shootings, Republicans tend to talk about new policies related to mental health. In response to the latest slayings, we're hearing many of the same familiar refrains."[T]his is also a mental illness problem. If you look at both of these cases, this is mental illness.
But hanging overhead is a problem that's tough for GOP officials to explain away: the last time they tackled a policy related to guns and mental health., one of the very first measures tackled by the Republican-led Congress in 2017 was, of all things, a gun bill.
MaddowBlog Wait hold on the usa 🇺🇸😳wouldn't be in this mess in the first place if we as a country would have taken care of the mentally ill not let him out and close a bunch of places down like Ronald Reagan in the 80's!!!! Side note he died of mental illness!!!!!
MaddowBlog NRA people are Republicans, that doesn’t do anything, but take money from nra and tax payers
MaddowBlog And cut mental health funding
MaddowBlog Republicans support child mass murder over gun control.
MaddowBlog Reagan (R) signed off on closing down all the institutions.
MaddowBlog Would rather gun rights than open borders more people died from open borders children ripped from parents rape media ok with that guns blazing during summer riots media need check it’s priority
MaddowBlog Why are Democrats so optimistic about Republicans voting for background checks & other minimalistic changes to gun purchases? Ban weapons of war!! Stop grovelling for the smallest change
MaddowBlog Is May mental health awareness month Will “gun laws” prevent lunatics from plowing down and killing people with their cars Happened twice this week that I know of.
MaddowBlog Any republican interest in combating mental illness is a smoke screen. TX Governor Abbott recently cut $211 million from departments that oversee mental health services. They don’t care. The only reason they are willing to negotiate is they can see the political winds changing.
MaddowBlog Yes !! MinnesotaDFL
MaddowBlog The Democrats talking today about schools and dangers are the same Democrats who chose not to get more police in schools. Both sides need to quit making this a political game and get something done!
MaddowBlog What a quagmire all sides of the aisles are in now. During the protests and riots, folks bought guns for their own safety.
MaddowBlog I leave this here like I have for the past 5 days of TFG overtanning ban on gun access by the mentally ill!! OVERTURNED. Prigresss is made and magats take it away. REGRESSIVE. We used to be a great country. Vote 💙💙💙to make a diff in local, state &federal !!!! It really matters
MaddowBlog The 2nd Amendment & lawful gun owners all over the U.S.A. ensure that no foreign force would ever dare to invade and attempt to occupy our country.
MaddowBlog if you go to Israel you see teenagers with guns everywhere , but they don't have the mental problems with have.
MaddowBlog Stick to the talking points and do not let the GQP frame the issues. The GQP's 'Solution' is nothing more than a cleverly spun admission of Failure. They put more weight on words on paper than on people's lives. That is the way they are. Talk about that for a change TheLeadCNN
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MaddowBlog Columbine High School massacre Bill Clinton president Sandy Hook massacre Obama president Uvalde, Texas massacre Biden We have the highest records during Democratic terms.
MaddowBlog With all this 'gun control” talk, haven't heard any Democrat or Joe Biden say how they plan to take guns from criminals. There were 41 mass shootings during the eight year OF Obama-BIDEN administration. and THEY didn't fix the problem, why?
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