Mental Breakdown
President Trump lamented that there were “so many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed.” One of Trump’s first acts as president was to made it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.
+ Paul Ryan repeated the familiar refrain that we shouldn’t immediately respond to such mass murders with a conversation about taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens. “Right now (rat-a-tat tat), I think (rat-a-tat tat) we need to take a breath (rat-a-tat tat) and collect the facts.”
+ Here’s the latest on what we know about the investigation.