Reporter asks Trump about high-capacity magazine ban, Trump responds with...

[Miles Archer]

Daniel Dale
@ddale8

Asked today about banning high-capacity magazines, Trump ended up talking about “the concept of mental institution” and “the concept also of voter identification”:

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[jberryhill]

1. Speaking of mental hospitals...

[dweller]

9. i guess Fred didn't have the choice...

settled for military acadamy ...


✌🏼

[jmowreader]

15. Bellevue would have HAD to be cheaper than military school

[fleabiscuit]

2. Out of the toilet mouth of Trump he did prove one thing...

Dump proved with that ignorant screed that people with mental health issues are the ones most likely to fall victim to violence.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. I don't know about New York.

But here in Illinois, it was a Republican governor -- Big Jim Thompson -- who closed or downsized the mental health facilities. There are a few small facilities left.

[msongs]

4. when reagan was CA governor he had a lot to do with closing down such hospitals and dumping

the residents out on the streets. is trump blaming him?

[calimary]

11. Yep. I remember that. Selfish cheapskate!

Homelessness went up noticeably and stayed that way. Heartless, thoughtless, his conscience had myopia. Compassion much?

I remember the irony of those sanctimonious photos of him acting so pious at these Prayer Breakfasts with the religious extremists. Nauseating and galling as all-get-out. This is the same shameless heartless phony-baloney who closed the mental institutions in California, turning all those helpless people out onto the streets. How can you play holier-than-thou when you’ve done that?

I guess he didn’t consider the “least of My brethren” story in Matthew 25.

[cannabis_flower]

18. The thing is...

many of those people didn't really belong in mental institutions because they were no harm to anyone. But what was really reprehensible is that the money saved by letting harmless people out of repressive mental institutions wasn't reinvested in community mental healthcare.


What should have been done is leave some mental institutions open for those that had to be there. Create group homes with on staff psychiatrists for those that needed more supervision and create community mental health centers for those who needed health on an outpatient basis. I know these do exist but we don't have near enough mental health care for those that need it and don't have insurance. Not only that, those that do have insurance many times end up losing jobs that provide it when their mental illness becomes acute and they lose their jobs.

[Aussie105]

5. A classic Trump non-answer.

And half way though his non-answer he seems to forget what the question was.

But anyone with a functional brain would have answered either 'YES!' or 'No, the NRA won't let me!'

But yeah, every hunter needs his 100 round magazine. You might be stalking something big in the backwoods, and be confronted by hordes of brain eating zombies!

[RainCaster]

6. You need that 100 round magazine of you're a bad shot

[bearssoapbox]

7. So he said absolutely nothing.

At least not anything that made sense to anyone that isn't a brainwashed, idiotic, sheet wearing, Trumplethinskin cultist.

[IronLionZion]

8. He could check himself into a mental health hospital and see if it helps

The only voter identification they want is if you're white you're alright, if you're brown you're illegal.

[bluecollar2]

10. He let the cat out of the bag

Gun control is going to be linked to voter suppression efforts going into the next election.

Hope we're up for that fight...

[shenmue]

12. REAGAN cut the funding for the mental hospitals

[LuckyLib]

14. His argument was right in line with folks arguing for "community integration" --

a very complicated process that requires even more funding than institutions -- but the state never provided the resources nor did it consult with the professionals who could have made clear the benefits and pitfalls. Never considering the opinions of experts is a Reagan hallmark, and the Dumpster has elevated it to a new level.

[pecosbob]

13. Someone else who had an obsession with votes was Stalin

A majority of those that voted against him in the Seventeenth Party Congress were dead within two years.

[CaptYossarian]

16. As unprepared as he was...

at least he never brought up banning Time or Newsweek. His answer was totally ad-libbed and uninformed, but he never went there.

[StarryNite]

19. LOL

I was expecting something along those lines too.

[Capt. America]

17. dementia

[AlexSFCA]

20. starting with trump - he clearly belongs to mental institution

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. let's talk about illegitimate presidents

You can't have national security if the Senate and the Executive Branch are controlled by a hostile foreign power. You can't have national security if that hostile foreign power used its influence to aid the takeover of the Supreme Court and a significant part of the Judiciary Branch.

[peggysue2]

22. Those mental institutions?

Primo patient: Donald Trump.

And yes, I've looked at it very strongly.

[DFW]

23. I thought Trump was considering banning Newsweek and the New Yorker..... n/t