Trump Retreats On Background Check, Blames Mental Health For Gun Violence – The Day That Was | MSNBC

“We already have a lot of background checks, ” President Trump said to reporters on Sunday, appearing to back away from calling for the “meaningful background checks” he said he wanted to implement earlier this month after a rash of deadly mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, El Paso, Texas, and at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. New NBC News/WSJ polling shows that Americans favor expanded background checks by an overwhelming margin. Which side will win out — the majority, or the NRA?
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Trump Retreats On Background Check, Blames Mental Health For Gun Violence – The Day That Was | MSNBC

64 comments

    1. @Hayden H he escaped with bone spurs to not go serve his country. A patriot? Please I even served. If he’s a billionaire tell him to show us his taxes. He said he would

    2. @Hayden H no one’s saying you have to take away somebody’s guns. You just say that so you can make it sound better for yourself. I started shooting when I was five and I haven’t killed anybody

    1. @Rebecca Rohmer Democrats started it but the Republicans are one who’s driving the car right now. Why do you Trump people keep bringing that one up?

    2. @David Hatchell do you realize that Ted Bundy was a republican? I’ll take the shooters over a serial killer

    1. @Born In Shithole Country is what happens when you are born and are not loved. You turn into a sad angry repulsive person like that.

  1. It’s painfully obvious that the NRA told cotton-candy-head to stick with the “mental illness” talking-point.

    Dear Americans,

    Get money out of politics ASAP!

    1. He is loyal only to the relentless pursuit of the almighty dollar.

      The NRA paid him thirty million to sing and dance for them. Shake it orange one.

    1. THIS is actually fake news. The rules were discriminating against people with disabilities, but we all know you lefties don’t really care about them

    2. That liar in chief is just doing what every American has done for the last 50+ years. Accept the money and ignore whoever dies as long as they get their bribe. That’s the American dream for you people. You made your bed now lay in it :D. I find it funny they try to censor me for promoting mass shootings, but the NRA does that every day for decades straight and they’re a legit and public association. Hypocrisy in Americans and their companies is astounding.

    3. @Gavin Sherlock The Aristocracy during the Dark Ages was “Left Wing” for disarming the Serfs?
      The Serfs were”Right Wing” for aspiring to be armed and free?

    4. @Mind Freshener What a worthless analogy, today’s gun owners are not in Serfdom, if your liberty is going to take away my daughters right to live without fear you have a perverse idea of freedom.

  2. Good Ol White privilege and mental health issues. It’s like they’re the only ones that has those issues and everyone else are just terrorists 🤷🏾‍♂️

    1. Yeah now they trying to pass gun laws and they not going to use these gun laws on white people bro they going to use it to take the guns out of black people hands cause mass incarceration and create more soft targets for white supremacist youth of color is the target

    1. YEUP!! BLUE. WAVE!! 👍👍💪 wish the backround. noise. could drown his voice out more. 😭😭😭😭

    2. @Jack name somebody. You have to win in the swing States.you’re not going to win with the policies that these guys are putting forward. No one wants socialism nobody wants infanticide. I just don’t see it. Name somebody that will win against Trump.

  3. So Trump is admitting that his mental health problems have an influence on gun violence. That’s great. Admitting it is the first step.

    1. The first thing he did after being sworn in was to make it easier for people with mental health issues to purchase firearms. He’s a lying sack of crap.

    2. He just found something else to blame; but mass shooters are hardly ever mentally Ill. The legislation passed by Obama was one of the first things he over turned. The NRA still doesn’t want background checks to buy guns.

    1. @Troy Stocker That makes no sense; also I’ve seen other posts from you: 1st you are for dmfp next you are agaist! YOU’RE nothing but a TROLL!!!

  4. Massacre Mitch McTurtle receives free housing from the NRA. Few people know this since the NRA pay for it through a shell company.

    1. @matt carnes So true…they have been well trained like a good lap dog! Actually they’re not that different except the dog is more trustworthy!

    1. They are 10 million in the hole. The NRA is funneling money from Russian donors so technically it not the NRA’S money. Those funds go to La Pierre. He purchased a 6 million dollar home using his “nonprofit” as his personal bank account.
      Facts are better than theories.

  5. Of course Trump has backtracked he’s famous for it! His policies wobble back & forth. & his backbone is like a plate of watery jello! 🍮

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