Government leaders need to figure out how to walk and chew gum at the same time in order to prevent more mass shootings.
If you want to reduce gun violence events and mass violence events, you need to take the best ideas from all sides. It is about mental health. It's about gun policies. It's about the rhetoric against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer community. On "Meet the Press" on Sunday, he said it was about all these things.
Political leaders need to chew gum at the same time. We need to make decisions that lead to a safer country.
The Club Q shooting left five people dead in Colorado Springs at the hands of a 22-year-old man who had previously threatened his mother with a homemade bomb. Insider previously reported that the El Paso County Sheriff's Office refused to use the red flag law that allows law enforcement or family members to temporarily seize a person's firearms if they are a serious risk to themselves or others.
—Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 27, 2022
The use of Colorado's new Red Flag Law, which has been used several hundred times, would have been a good example of how it could be used.
When someone is an immediate threat, we need to make it easier to get that. The troubled person had a history of being a threat. It could have led to the removal of his weapons from his possession while he was in a mental health crisis. Data-driven tools are what those types of tools are. The people work. They can help reduce suicides. They can reduce the likelihood of horrible events from time to time.
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