“If you are prone to depression, if you have a mental health challenge, and you know going in and getting a prescription, going in and getting treatment, will eliminate your gun rights, I will tell you people won’t seek treatment for their mental health challenges,” she said, stressing that red flag laws are not anti-mental health. “What they are is helping families who say, ‘Oh my goodness, my kid could do this or my neighbor could this.'”
Trump focused on mental health when he took reporters’ questions at a White House event on Wednesday. Trump continued to be vague on specifics about gun reforms, but he did not mince words when it came to mental challenges: “I support keeping guns out of the hands of sick people, mentally ill people.” He added: “We’re going to be looking at a lot of things and hopefully coming up with something that’s bipartisan — has to be bipartisan.”
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George Guerrero leaves candles at a makeshift memorial after a vigil at the University of Texas Permian Basin for the victims of the mass shooting in Odessa, Texas, Sept. 1, 2019.
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Heitkamp said she’s looking forward to the Democratic debate in Houston next week and that it’s smart for Democrats to get the number of candidates down to a “manageable level.”
“It’s interesting because there have been huge sociological studies done that when people have too many choices, they don’t make any choices. I don’t think the DNC is wrong to want to at least get it down to a manageable level,” she added.
She would, however, love it if there were more “economically conservative” candidates on stage next week at the debate and is curious to see which, if any, will “catch more fire” and move up in the polls.
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