Trump condemns ‘white supremacy,’ calls for mental health and gun reforms after double mass shootings
The president says they've done a lot but much more needs to be done, mostly preventative and deterent in nature.
Among his proposals, the president
1) calls for red-flag laws to allow the seizure of firearms from those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety.
2) calls for "cultural" changes, citing violent video games.
3) calls on the Justice Department to propose legislation ensuring that those commit hate crimes and mass murders "face the death penalty and that this capital punishment be delivered quickly, decisively, and without years of needless delay.
4) endorses policing the "dark recesses of the Internet" in a bid to catch mass murderers before they act; 8chan?
5) calls DOJ to work in partnership with local, state, and federal agencies and social media companies to develop tools to identify mass shooters before they strike.
6) calls others to stop the glorification of violence in our society; grisly video games.
He says, "It is too easy for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this and it has to begin immediately."
Of course with minutes of delivering his address to the nation where Trump calls
the shooting in El Paso “tragic” and an “act of cowardice," Cory Booker calls him weak and wrong. :roll:
Cory Booker@CoryBooker
"The president is weak. And wrong.
White supremacy is not a mental illness, and guns are a tool that white supremacists use to fulfill their hate."
