CBS News – by REBECCA KAPLANConnecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that this weekend’s shooting rampage in California should prompt lawmakers to reconsider legislation that would help provide more resources for the mentally ill and prevent them from buying guns.
“We need more resources to make the country healthier and to make sure that these kinds of horrific, insane, mad occurrences are stopped. And the Congress will be complicit if we fail to act,” said Blumenthal.
The Connecticut Democrat actively worked to pass more gun control legislation in the wake of the December 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Every single bill, ranging from a ban on military-style assault weapons to a strengthening of background checks, failed to garner enough support to pass even the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Blumenthal said Sunday that the shootings remind him of the Sandy Hook aftermath.
“I really, sincerely hope that this tragedy, this unimaginable, unspeakable tragedy will provide an impetus to bring back measures that will keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are severely troubled or deranged like this young man was, and provide resources,” Blumenthal said. “We need mental health resources and that initiative, I hope, will provide a common ground, a point of consensus that will bring us together in the Congress and enable the majority.”
CBS News’ Major Garrett pressed Blumenthal on whether any legislation might have stopped suspect Elliott Rodger from legally purchasing the three handguns he used in the attack, which left six dead and thirteen injured. The senator noted that the legislation that failed in Congress last year would have given more resources for police departments to diagnose and detect mental illness and intervene.
“Obviously, not every kind of gun violence is going to be prevented by law, it’s out of Washington, but at least we can make a start,” he added.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., did not weigh in on further legislation to limit gun sales, but backed Blumenthal’s push for efforts to improve mental health care.
Thune said that Congress should work on ensuring “that we have policies in place that allow people with mental health issues like these to be diagnosed and to be treated.”
“I think that’s something on which there is agreement and that’s where we ought to be focusing our efforts,” he said.
Face The Nation
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-california-shooting-should-prompt-fresh-look-at-gun-laws/
BIG SHOCK (sarcasm)
Yup, we all saw it coming. 🙁
Exactly.
The psycho in question stabbed 1/2 the people that were murdered.
yes we must now push for knife control as well.
They have been. 🙁
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/knives-and-the-second-amendment-legal-article-published/67823
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/al-sharpton-knife-control-comes-next-after-guns/30477
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/knife-rights-knife-owners-protection-act-introduced-in-congress-crucial-knife-owner-protections/65271
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/knife-rights-bill-filed-in-kansas-indiana-bill-advances/32600
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/knife-rights-files-appeal-in-new-york-city-lawsuit/89134
If a pack of firecrackers blows off congress will be screaming for new gun laws.
Write all the stupid laws you like, bone-head. No one’s listening anymore.
“We need more resources to make the country healthier and to make sure that these kinds of horrific, insane, mad occurrences are stopped. And the Congress will be complicit if we fail to act,” said Blumenthal.”
Complicit, hell!
F%&king so-called ‘government’ is behind most of these “mad occurrences”, you f%&king POS TRAITOR!!!
rev up that panic buying america… lol
The same stupid game plan: get people labeled “crazy” to be unable to purchase guns, then have the government decide who is “crazy”.
How many of the victims were armed? If the answer is none then why is that? Seems like most of the population is pretty decent and usually try to do the right thing. Removing all gun laws would tilt the balace of coersive force to the side of the majority who are decent. Logically then all of the 20,000 gun laws in this country have proved that they are an utter failure in stemming violent crime and should all be abolished. All of them.
Another thing. If I were Governer of California the capital would be open to all, and security details would be dismissed. Let the Sacramento Sheriff do what he was elected to do. Second I’d shut down the state police and Highway Patrol entirely. Then march into a joint session of the legislature and tell all of these losers that the capital security has been dismissed and suggest that they go buy themselves a PEE SHOOTER of their choice from one of several very fine stores of their choice and then when they consider the laws they wright and pass and feel that pistol pressing against their bodies in the holsters that they need to start deregulating and repealing most of the laws written in the last hundred years. Then tell them good day and knock yourselves out guys. The people are watching you all. All the laws you pass you will have to defend yourself with no help from the police, because there won’t be any available as a pretrial guard. That time is ended.
California is a great state, but the Government quite frankly are COMMUNISTS. Even the Republicans.
Well of course! I’m surprised Frankenstein is not out of her dungeon yet, ready to introduce her revised gun control legislation. Where the hell is she? Also, Bloominidiot and his gun control clan, where are they?
Bloominidiot and his gun control clan probably produced the show in Santa Barbara.
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/bloombergs-new-everytown-for-gun-safety-group-releases-scenes-from-everytown-ad/84883
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/michael-bloomberg-will-haunt-you-in-the-afterlife/87791