Trump Blasts Obama's Planned Actions On Gun Control

[Purveyor]

By Eugene Scott, CNN
Updated 5:41 PM ET, Sat January 2, 2016

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is denouncing President Barack Obama's plan to expand gun background checks via executive action, arguing that "a tremendous mental health problem," not guns, is the cause of America's mass shootings.

"I don't like it," he told CBS's John Dickerson on "Face the Nation." "I don't like anything having to do with changing our Second Amendment. We have plenty of rules and regulations. It's plenty of things they can do right now that are already there. They don't do them."

"We have a tremendous mental health problem," Trump continued. "We are closing places all over the world, all over the country they are closing, but they are closing all over the world."

He added: "All they want to do is blame the guns. And it is not the gun that pulls the trigger."

An excerpt of the interview was released on Saturday, and the full clip is set to air Sunday morning.

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[monmouth4]

1. In the meantime some alcoholic drunk killed his wife, some kids and himself over laundry..I don't

have details. I had to stop reading and get away from the article I was so upset...

[B Calm]

2. NRA Republicans have been blasting Obama for seven years. The way I see it

if you're being blamed for something that you hadn't done, might as well do it!

[Purveyor]

3. I'm not certain doing this during a national election year is the

best choice however.

It will certainly mobilize the gun-rights to get out the vote.

[B Calm]

4. The majority of Americans want something done about the relaxed gun laws.

[Purveyor]

6. Will they show up at the polls to counter the pending, massive

campaign the NRA is about to launch?

They are going to throw everything they have to defeat the dems...

[B Calm]

11. Now we're back to where I started, the NRA launched that campaign 7 or 8 years ago.

[Maeve]

5. We DO have a tremendous mental health problem--Trump supporters! eom

[Vinca]

7. If Trump lost a loved one, he'd be the first to demand an end to the gun madness.

He's just pandering at this point. I remember when he was a proponent of single-payer. Honest!

[dhill926]

8. this reads like Palin.....

mental health issues indeed...

[Skittles]

9. he's such a fucking pandering idiot

wouldn't a "tremendous mental health problem" be one of the reasons to FAVOR expanded background checks?

[BlueStater]

10. What a phony.

I doubt this slimeball has ever owned a gun in his entire life. On the other hand, we know his two douchebag sons enjoy shooting innocent animals for whatever sick, sad reason.

[quaker bill]

12. in that the "tremendous mental health problem"

concentrates itself at his campaign rallies, a simpler approach could be imagined.