Qasim Rashid, Esq.I’m convinced Republican politicians don’t actually believe mental illness causes gun violence. But they do it because they just know that demonizing people with mental illness has no political consequences and also that doing so buys them enough time to feign outrage until the next mass shooting dominates the news cycle.
Incognitim@QasimRashid & unfortunately, a few dems are beholden to the nra, too. Cuellar, whose district includes Sutherland Springs, where 26 people were killed by an AR15 gunman at a church in 2017, does not support an assault weapon ban.
When asked today if he regrets that, he hid behind the 2nd Am. & said we have to look at mental health, isolation, ideology, blahblahblah.
Just wish Acosta would've asked if we should just ban ARs ONLY for neo-nazis, or ask them politely not be be racist murderers, or?