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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Blasts Obama's Planned Actions On Gun Control
By Eugene Scott, CNN
Updated 5:41 PM ET, Sat January 2, 2016
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is denouncing President Barack Obama's plan to expand gun background checks via executive action, arguing that "a tremendous mental health problem," not guns, is the cause of America's mass shootings.
"I don't like it," he told CBS's John Dickerson on "Face the Nation." "I don't like anything having to do with changing our Second Amendment. We have plenty of rules and regulations. It's plenty of things they can do right now that are already there. They don't do them."
"We have a tremendous mental health problem," Trump continued. "We are closing places all over the world, all over the country they are closing, but they are closing all over the world."
He added: "All they want to do is blame the guns. And it is not the gun that pulls the trigger."
An excerpt of the interview was released on Saturday, and the full clip is set to air Sunday morning.
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monmouth4
(9,709 posts)have details. I had to stop reading and get away from the article I was so upset...
B Calm
(28,762 posts)if you're being blamed for something that you hadn't done, might as well do it!
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)best choice however.
It will certainly mobilize the gun-rights to get out the vote.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)campaign the NRA is about to launch?
They are going to throw everything they have to defeat the dems...
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Maeve
(42,288 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)He's just pandering at this point. I remember when he was a proponent of single-payer. Honest!
dhill926
(16,355 posts)mental health issues indeed...
Skittles
(153,193 posts)wouldn't a "tremendous mental health problem" be one of the reasons to FAVOR expanded background checks?
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I doubt this slimeball has ever owned a gun in his entire life. On the other hand, we know his two douchebag sons enjoy shooting innocent animals for whatever sick, sad reason.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)concentrates itself at his campaign rallies, a simpler approach could be imagined.