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Father of slain journalist: Trump focus on mental health a 'red herring'
BY BROOKE SEIPEL - 02/16/18 09:46 AM EST
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The father of a journalist who was shot and killed during a live broadcast in 2015 called out President Trump on Friday for his focus on mental health instead of gun control after the deadly high school shooting in Florida.
Andy Parker, whose television reporter daughter Alison was killed in 2015, has become a gun control advocate since his daughter's death.
In an interview on CNN's "New Day" Parker said Trump's focus on the mental health of the 19-year-old shooter who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was a "red herring."
"It is a red herring because we're not the only country that has people that are mentally ill," Parker said. "No other civilized country in the world has the same problem we do. We have mentally ill people that can get access to weapons of war like an AR-15 and you can't just say well it's a mental health problem."
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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/374187-father-of-slain-journalist-trump-focus-on-mental-health-a-red-herring
