Following Thursday’s horrific mass shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, perpetrated by a 26-year-old armed with six guns, President Obama laid the blame squarely at the feet of the American people for not doing more about gun control.
“This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America,” said Obama. “We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loves ones because of our inaction.”
The GOP’s crop of 2016 presidential candidates instead cited “mental health” as the chief cause of mass shootings.
This isn’t guns, this is really about mental illness. —Donald Trump.
Do we need to do a better job in mental health? You bet we do. —Mike Huckabee.
In many of these shootings, people have mental disturbances. —Ben Carson.
On Sunday night’s edition of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the witty satirist appeared incensed by the GOP candidates’ “mental health” default response in the wake of mass shootings, since it’s the only time right-wingers seem to bring up the country’s mental health problem. For the full article click here
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