The problem with Paul Ryan’s focus on mental health and guns

Sen Murphy said Monday he was planning to introduce legislation to strengthen background checks on gun purchases.

The another senator from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal also called for gun control legislation. Dick Durbin of IL and Chris Murphy of CT. While most politicians published anemic responses sending “prayers and love” to victims of Monday’s shooting in Las Vegas, others called for laws that limit access to machine guns and assault rifles for people like the Nevada shooter. The number of mass shootings – 521 in the past 477 days – grows as well.

Ryan, in an interview with WISN radio in Milwaukee, said Wednesday: “Bad people are going to do bad things”.

PAUL RYAN: One of the things we’ve learned from these shootings is that often underneath this is a diagnosis of mental illness. She also mentioned it was why many were “stunned that there was no United States change after Sandy Hook”.

Fellow Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, also of CT, took to Facebook, saying: “Congress refuses to act”. It is that simple.

Congress went on rewind this week, replaying the gun control arguments raised after every mass shooting in recent years.

“It’s because this country has the loosest set of gun laws allowing risky people to own unsafe weapons in the industrialized world”, he said.

Congressman Mark Meadows said: You have to have a special class of license to have an automatic weapon.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday it wasn’t appropriate to politicize the Las Vegas shooting that left 59 dead and more than 500 injured. “The investigation’s not even been completed”. “I think it’s premature to be discussing legislative solutions, if there are any”.

“House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi criticized House Republicans for returning to the silencer debate so shortly after his return”, Time reports.

The National Rifle Association, however, on Thursday opened the door for supporting the regulation bump stocks, a rifle modification that was used in a mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this week. “Together, we can find common ground that respects and supports the 2nd Amendment while keeping guns out of the hands of people who should not have them – criminals and the dangerously mentally ill”.

Lewis, the civil rights leader who led the gun control sit-in on the House floor a year ago after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, approached Speaker Ryan on the House floor Tuesday night, seeking his cooperation for today’s demonstration.

“My core principle is that we have some fundamental, unalienable rights to protect from federal government infringement”, he continued.

Schumer praised Ryan and his fellow Republicans for putting a hold on the measure, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, which last month passed the House Natural Resources Committee on a party-line vote. “The Duncan legislation includes language revising federal regulations on silencers, which now have tougher purchasing requirements than guns”.