Pres. Trump has repeatedly tried to shift the cause of mass shootings away from guns and toward mental illness. Experts say that's completely wrong.
“Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger, not the gun,” President Donald Trump said soon after the recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 dead.
“What we know is that the majority of these mass shooters, did not have one of the major diagnosable psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression, that we know of,” Swanson said. “I don’t want people to forget that this is a mental health problem,” Trump said. “I don’t want them to forget that, because it is. It’s a mental health problem.”
“It’s creating this boundary and saying we’re on this side, and those people over there are to blame,” Swanson said. “What better boundary could you think of then building an asylum and locking them all up in there, and it’s just not going to work.” Marvin Swartz, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral Sciences at Duke University, agreed, telling ABC News that while there is a need for more beds in mental institutions, that hospitalization is not a feasible solution to preventing mental illness.
"There are many, many things in play," he said."People are talking about videos. People are talking about lots of different things. But we do have a way of bringing what we already have ... we have many, many people that are unable to buy guns right now. Many people are unable to buy guns. We have background checks. But there are loopholes in the background checks."
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