“We’ve seen an increased number of shootings in states with easy gun laws as well as states with very strict gun laws,” Abbott, a Republican, said on “Fox News Sunday.”Ībbott said there’s an increase in “anger and violence” and the root cause is “mental health problems.”Īdmitting that Texas has lagged in mental health for years, he said the state has increased funding over the past three years. If the shootings feel somehow normal, so do the post-shooting promises from politicians.Īs Spainhouer noted, Abbott returned to his familiar post-shooting refrain that it’s not gun laws that are needed, but a focus on mental health. “They are part of the national reality – almost like bad weather – that causes people to shudder and hope it doesn’t affect their neighborhoods or their families before they carry on with their lives.” They are “part of the background noise of daily life,” CNN’s Stephen Collinson wrote last week after a mass shooting in Atlanta. ![]() Rather than moving toward a new assault weapons ban, Americans almost seem used to mass shootings. He equated the kind of imposition an assault weapons ban places on individual rights to limits on certain types of speech. “Until we take some definite actions, we’re changing the narrative about it being just a mental health issue and start doing something about the guns,” he added. But if we don’t do something about the guns, the people-killing guns, then we’re going to continue to have the same thing happen,” Spainhouer said. “We’re always going to have mental health issues. Greg Abbott during a Monday appearance on “CNN This Morning.” ![]() “I hear our governor talking about mental health issues,” Spainhouer said of Texas Gov. But after pulling a bloody child out from under a dead adult – one of eight killed at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday – he’s ready for a new national assault weapons ban. Steven Spainhouer is a Second Amendment supporter and a gun owner.
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