President Trump seems to have fully cooled on his initial calls for bipartisan background check legislation in response to two mass shootings earlier this month that left 32 people dead.
And this is a surprise to whom?
“The people that — a lot of the people that put me where I am, are strong believers in the 2nd Amendment, and I am also. And we have to be very careful about that,” he said. “You know, they call it the slippery slope. All of a sudden everything gets taken away, we’re not going to let that happen.”
previously on ‘The Donald Trump Show’.
So how do we know who is too crazy to buy a gun if we don’t run a background check?
Asking for a friend.
“I’ve said it 100 times, it’s not the gun that pulls the trigger, it’s the person that pulls the trigger. These are sick people, and it’s that kind of a problem,” he said. “And we’re looking at mental institutions, which we used to have, like for example where I come from in New York they closed up almost all of their mental institutions or many of them and those people just went onto the streets.”
Gee, I wonder who was primarily responsible for that. Oh, yeah! Madison Avenue and Ronald Fucking Reagan…
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html
So then…
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil’s right hand…?
I don’t think that defense worked in the song either.
We should all be harping about mental health. His.
I’m not sure it’s an intelligent political move for Donald J. Trump to initiate a national conversation about mental health and stability.
Blaming people with mental health issues is a cop out and further stigmatizes people who struggle with such issues (they’re also typically a greater threat to themselves than to others). A “normal” person will kill another human being if they believe it’s right. Morality is equally a part of the issue.
But the biggest part of the problem? The guns. There are too many of them in this country and they’re too easy to get.
It’s not about mental illness.
It’s never been about mental illness.
It’s about ridiculously easy access to guns.
It’s never been about anything else.
The only things that are “slippery” here are the greased palms, fallacious reasoning and disingenuous words.
OK makes sense—rebuild the mental hospitals, and put people in them after they do a mass shooting. Think they’ll do another mass shooting? No way!
Seriously he was hepped up on background checks for like 20 minutes and then the sane people weren’t the last people he talked to and suddenly he’s all “they call it the slippery slope.” Stupid, venal, weak god-damn bastard.
On a not entirely unrelated note I’m shooting photos at a Democratic fundraiser tonight. Ordinarily I wouldn’t have much interest in event photography but this is my way of helping. And what it mostly helps is me keep my sanity. If you’re outraged and enraged, volunteer. Makes you feel better I swear.
Question- When the next foreign terrorist does something bad to Americans will we hear about mental health issues?
Do not question “The Donald” on mental health.
He is ,or will be, the poster boy for bat shit crazy.
The dumbasses in MSM that kept saying he meant it this time
If we had a real news media in this country, Trump would see wall-to-wall declarations of what a coward he is. Goading him like that is probably our only shot at any sort of improvement in the next 2 years.
“Weak” is the best single descriptor for Donald J. Trump. The projection, the overcompensation, it all stems from the fact that he is a fundamentally weak man.
“The gun doesn’t pull the trigger …”
No, the trigger is part of the gun. Pull the trigger and the gun shoots however many bullets are in the magazine.
Take away the fucking gun and there’s no trigger to pull and no bullets to shoot.
And if you’re going to allow guns (still, please, take away the assault-style weapons and extended magazines), do universal background checks and you keep a lot of people from getting guns who should not have them.
No slippery slope. Just more people who don’t end up dead and a lot more kids who aren’t afraid to go to school and more adults not afraid to go to public places.
Many people are just learning about this. I call it the slippery slope, because if you start in one spot, you can move in the wrong direction. Nobody had ever heard of this before. We’ll be talking about how to do the mental health without the slippery slope very soon, very soon. Perhaps in two weeks. And they won’t be doing the big shootings anymore. We’ll be very safe, and strong.
Trump’s Harps On About Mental Health Instead Of Background Checks
It is quite about time that we focus upon the mental health of the principle occupant of the White House and ship him off to a home for the excessively off-center and keep him there . . . forever.