‘We have to deal with mental illness,’ President McCarthy says of Nashville shooting



When asked about the Nashville school shooting that left six dead, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said solving gun violence in America won’t be solved with legislation.

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37 comments

  1. Of course these people have a mental health issue. So how did they get that many firearms and assault weapons legally?????

  2. The chickens have come home to roost America is getting back what they sowed this country was built on violence murder and theft on the Indian the black slaves they opened that door a long time ago I feel sorry for innocent people being killed but that's it you can't steal kill and destroy everything in your path and expect a peaceful out come

  3. Quote : "McCarthy & 'Parents Bill of Rights' – To support our children, provide for their education, promote their well-being, and secure a brighter future…"

  4. A Fact : 'Firearms is the number one cause of death for children in the United States'

  5. Another Quote : "In first remarks to reporters on Nashville shooting, McCarthy says he must see ‘all the facts’ before backing gun control measures. Another Quote : "To Kevin McCarthy, 3 dead kids and 3 dead adults are not ‘facts’ enough for gun control"

  6. You have got a point mate! Mental illness is so much easier to handle than guns! It's more specific. Some people think you must have been mentally ill after all the groveling you did in ascending the throne!

  7. I think voting you out would be the best thing

  8. Why can't you talk about the one where they had 100 cops and nobody did nothing for an hour

  9. McCarthy is weak vote him out get somebody that's going to make a difference

  10. Interesting. Best of luck in finding a viable solution to gun violence in our Country. Agree – writing more "feel-good" legislation has proven to simply provide self-justification for our Politicians' mostly ineffectual existence. IMHO – it appears that the root cause is not adversity or disadvantage, but the societal "excuses" given for basic human traits needed to survive. Feeding off these "excuses" takes away that needed drive and makes potentially strong individuals and groups "victims".

  11. Unamerican, anti-constitution enemies on the left need to be deported.

  12. You need to deal with both mental health issues and ban military grade assault weapons like the AR15 from continuing to be sold

  13. We have a BIG problem in America alright, yet it has nothing to do with the NRA, so-called “assault weapons,” AR-15s, or any other type of firearm or magazine capacity. For Americans have always possessed the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, as most have availed themselves of. Yet prior to the last couple of decades, we've not seen this amount of mass murders, which are really domestic terrorist attacks. In fact, many people used to place their firearms in the back window of their trucks, on their walls, in open closets, behind bedroom doors, and in dresser drawers with very few incidents. Full-auto weapons were sold at department stores, and kids even used to bring guns to school as members of shooting teams and hunting clubs, etc.

    So what has changed? In the last 20+ years the amount and frequency of psychoactive drugs being prescribed… extremely graphic violent video games, movies, music, and TV shows where the hero is not the good guy, but the gun-wielding lunatic who murders innocent people for fun… the callous disregard for the lives of pre-born human beings… hands-off parenting with little to no discipline… fatherless homes… abandonment of traditional Christian values that America was founded upon… broken homes where most children are not being raised by their loving married father and mother… Encouraging mothers to barbarically butcher their pre-born children… trying to create a genderless society… a society that refuses to hold individuals personally accountable for their words and actions, instead, blames tools like guns.

    Violence comes from an evil heart, NOT an inanimate object.

  14. Guns are constitutionally protected, and for good reason, remember the American Revolution?
    Remember, Americans have had access to almost any kind of gun for many decades, yet only more recently mentally ill people have been misusing them to commit acts of terror. So we don't have an "assault weapons" problem in America, we have a deceitful heart full of sin crises that only Jesus can fix, but He needs our total surrender.

    God said, "If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

    As a parent, educator, and security professional, I ask this question:
    If you were the principal of a school, what are the top 5 things you'd do to help protect your students from a mass murderer? And no, erecting "Gun-Free-Zone" signs has proven to be ineffective at preventing these crimes, but helpful, since it disarms the good guys that could have stopped these criminals.

    So what has changed? In the last 20+ years the amount and frequency of psychoactive drugs being prescribed… extremely graphic violent video games, movies, music, and TV shows where the hero is not the good guy, but the gun-wielding lunatic who murders innocent people for fun… the callous disregard for the lives of pre-born human beings… hands-off parenting with little to no discipline… fatherless homes… abandonment of traditional Christian values that America was founded upon… broken homes where most children are not being raised by their loving married father and mother… Encouraging mothers to barbarically butcher their pre-born children… trying to create a genderless society… a society that refuses to hold individuals personally accountable for their words and actions, instead, blames tools like guns.

    Violence comes from an evil heart, NOT an inanimate object.

  15. Remember Stephen Willeford, the NRA instructor who in 2017 used his AR-15 rifle to shoot a mass murderer at the Sutherland Springs, Texas church, thus saving many lives? His case is just one of numerous citizen-involved shootings that occur each year that save countless innocent lives. Therefore illustrating how guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens thwart all sorts of crimes, which is why law enforcement, private security officers, and countless US citizens alike legally open and conceal carry firearms every day.
    In fact, police say the mentally deranged woman (who thought she was a man) in Monday's mass murder attack in Nashville had planned to attack other locations besides that Presbyterian Church School, but they had security officers present. Therefore a much softer target was chosen, and three 9-year-old children and three teachers died as a result of their school being left unprotected.
    Criminals are attracted to areas where they won’t face armed resistance. Mass murderers, in particular, are interested in maximizing their murder rate, thus avoiding areas where they may run into people who can properly defend themselves and others with arms, such as in "Gun Free Zones" like schools, malls, theaters, etc.
    For example, have you ever heard of a mass shooting at a police station, active duty military base, NRA convention, gun store, shooting range, gun show, or another place where most everyone was armed? No, no you haven’t. So don't listen to lies that purport that "guns make people homicidal," or that “Gun-Free-Zones” make people safer. If that were the case then gun manufacturers would be shooting people, and anti-gun politicians and celebrities would not be employing armed security, yet they hypocritically do.

  16. You have to stop allowing everyone to own and carry weapons. It should be obvious to all by now that not all people are capable of and responsible enough to own weapons. McCarthy should deal first with his own mental illness and the widespread mental illness of his MAGA base. Now that Trump is INDICTED…we'll see how all this goes for My Kevin and MAGA.

  17. In certain areas of Texas we do have armed School cops on duty we shoud have school cops throughout the state of Texas and Nationwide, having said that, as gun owner myself, I strongly believe what needs to be a responsible gun owner and keep your weapons under lock and key and I strongly believe once you have a permit to have a concealed weapon not walking around like Gunsmoke, giving responsible gun owners like myself a bad name. ⚔

  18. Ban guns Republicans falt

  19. Maybe start with a better education system, then work from there.

  20. He’s absolutely right. There is a mental health epidemic in this country but nothing will ever be done about it because war seems to be our government’s only priority.

  21. As a foreigner, I laughed at this kind of mass shooting news in America , it’s ridiculous that this could happen so often

  22. the person picked the school because of the security concern.
    Thats not mental illiness. Stop the bullshyte trying to create a industry to force people to talk to make believe government qualified minsters & priests. lie detector crap.
    the delusional notion that your going to predict who is going to commit a crime is the problem, like the souther border, after all these years and billions spent & then funding other peoples wars. when elected they elevate themselves as
    leaders of the world. bull shyte.
    squandering resources and peoples lives for your false pride and three bathrooms. isnt that the truth ?

    you are the people that continue to lie and try to justify the blatant criminals murders.
    while denying law abiding citizens thier rights little by little.

    locks on school doors left open ?
    visitors allowed to enter the main part of the school. what happened to the office?
    Schools built to create jobs in the community with a total disregard for the saftey of the children. the brick school have a outer door to the staircase, there is a inner door to the halls. there is plate & screen wire windows on both doors. all classroom have sturdy doors with the wire mess glass.
    they want a delusional campus look.
    and more ludicrous acts by incompetent people.

    like suing a "law abiding" company and winning? judicial activism of politically correct ? three bathrooms stuff.
    the society was made sick by all the rhetoric of war on this, war on that bu cockstrong wimps, as long as certian players got thier money. All looking to be heros of world war 2 that most of them dodged.

    There is no reason for elected officials to be involved with any foreign government.
    There are trained professionals that are appointed to do that.

    the appointed people now, are not trained professionals. The elected officials have no faith in them, what they read or thier own government. The delusional bums try to take pride in that.

    Thats why they made public daycare centers of the public schools so both parents can work. while frightening students of the bogie man if they want a discussion on obtaining a gun permit and its requirements. they don't teach, they indoctrinate.

    The underpreviledged are refused a gun permit, they are deemed a risk. second class citizens…always.
    all those mass shooter brats are white too. thats why they want a discussion.
    Basically people of color use it for business. No one is discussing that.
    see the difference?

    all them politicians free the nipple for thier constitutes.

  23. Yes. Better mental health, end the war on drugs and fix fatherless homes. All will greatly impact violent crime without violating constitutional rights.

  24. Can't hear this guy…!

  25. Deal with mental illness no problem just put up or shut up!

  26. I guess that's why the GOP is always in favor of cutting government programs that provide mental health services.

  27. Not a single republican can even say why does this happens only in America compared to any 1st world country.

  28. Help begins with you admitting you have the mental problems you and Republicans have.

  29. Wish and hope and yell and scream all you want. But there is absolutley NO CHANCE anyone will ever be able to disarm private gun owners in the US. So get over that pipe dream and start figuring out how protect your self and your family. Because no one else is going to do it for you.

  30. How many politicians on the take to fatten their personal portfolio while mass shootings, murders, suicides, trafficking, fentanyl-drug overdoses, homelessness, unvetted open borders, bank failures, …, are all ongoing. Congress needs to start with itself admit it has money addiction to the point of being gordon geckolike, little ceasars watching rome burn while they play their favorite tune.

  31. GOP morons think mental illness is only unique to America. Only 300 million guns is unique to America.

  32. We have to deal with poor mental health every time we listen to your insincere bs!Pathetic cowardly republican party blaming everyone and everything for gun violence instead of themselves. They are directly to blame for putting guns In these people's hands!

  33. Democrats don't want to address mental illness, because they'd lose much of their voterbase