Red dwindle laws, mental health concerns: How a GOP is responding to a El Paso, Dayton shootings

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President Donald Trump pronounced a republic contingency reject racism, prejudice and white leverage following dual mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso.
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WASHINGTON – Two days after back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Republicans are beginning to put onward a trail brazen in response to the tragedies.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pronounced Monday he has speedy applicable cabinet chairmen, such as Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to “engage in bipartisan discussions of intensity solutions to assistance strengthen a communities though infringing on Americans’ inherent rights.”

The proclamation comes after practical overpower from a Senate’s tip Republican in a past dual days.

President Donald Trump on Monday called for “red flag” legislation to be passed, that would allow law enforcement, family members and other endangered parties to petition a decider to allocate guns from people who might means mistreat to themselves or others. 

The boss also condemned a shootings and a horrible ideologies that some trust encouraged a El Paso shooting.

“In one voice, a republic contingency reject racism, prejudice and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies contingency be defeated,” Trump said Monday, addressing a nation. “Hate has no place in America.”

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In his statement Monday, Trump also indicated that his administration’s response to a shootings would be focused some-more on mental health and informative issues than on gun control. 

“Mental illness and loathing pulls a trigger,” Trump said. “Not a gun.”

Graham pronounced in a matter Monday that he will deliver bipartisan legislation that will inspire states to adopt “red flag” laws by origination of a sovereign extend program.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, on Monday afternoon said on Twitter he hopes his “red flag” legislation will be brought adult in a Senate Judiciary Committee led by Graham.

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Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have called on McConnell to move a Senate behind early from a Aug recess in order to consider legislation a House passed progressing this year that would emanate stricter credentials checks.

Here is some-more of what some GOP lawmakers are observant as a republic debates a need for new gun control laws:

Condemning white supremacy

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Sunday cursed a purported El Paso shooter, who authorities say is linked to a “manifesto” he published before a sharpened that contains anti-immigrant and extremist rhetoric. Authorities have also pronounced they are questioning a El Paso sharpened as a intensity hatred crime.

Cruz, whose father was Cuban immigrant, said in a tweet that he was “deeply frightened by a horrible anti-Hispanic prejudice voiced in a shooter’s supposed ‘manifesto.’”

“This ignorant injustice is nauseating and profoundly anti-American,” he continued. “We contingency pronounce clearly to fight immorality in any form it takes. What we saw yesterday was a iniquitous act of terrorism and white supremacy.”

Sen. Tim Scott, a usually African American Republican senator, also pronounced that white nationalism is a “stain on a inhabitant identity.” He combined that a United States “must brand and base out this evil—period.”

“White nationalism is domestic terrorism and has no place in America,” Scott wrote in a tweet. “It is essentially opposite all that we have worked for, antithetical to a American creed, and is a mark on a inhabitant identity.”

Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana also called for movement opposite white supremacy.

“I deployed to Afghanistan as a response to radical Islamic terrorism,” he wrote in a tweet. “We now face a opposite rivalry that has also emerged from a shadows though final a same concentration and integrity to base out and destroy.”

“#WhiteSupremacistTerrorism should be named, targeted and defeated,” he concluded.

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Mental health and video games

Some Republicans, including a president, were discerning to indicate to mental health issues as one of a pushing army of a mass shootings.

Although House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., did not directly bond a El Paso and Dayton shootings to aroused video games, he did advise that a images in video games can “dehumanize people to have a diversion of sharpened individuals.”

“I’ve always felt that it’s a problem for destiny generations and others,” he pronounced during an talk on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “We’ve watched studies uncover what it does to individuals, and we demeanour during these photos of how it took place, we can see a actions within video games and others.”

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, pointed to mental health concerns, observant “there’s something deeper going on here” and citing self-murder rates and obsession rates. 

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“Look during a mental health predicament in a nation today, there aren’t adequate laws and, in fact, no law can scold some of a some-more elemental informative problems we face currently as a nation and a sharpened final night is an denote of that,” he said.

“So we demeanour brazen to operative together with my colleagues to try to respond a many effective approach possible,” he continued, “but we also have to demeanour low into a hearts and figure out how could someone indicate a gun during someone who he had never seen or famous and lift a trigger?”

Contributing: Nicholas Wu, Elizabeth Lawrence, David Jackson, John Fritze, Michael Collins, Ledyard King

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