Video games, mental illness, the internet... Here are the most common excuses for mass shootings other than guns.
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00:00The number one seller of video games right now is Call of Duty for the last nine years
00:08in a row.
00:09If you've ever watched that, you can see how much violence it exposes to them, too.
00:15The idea of these video games to dehumanize individuals, to have a game of shooting individuals
00:21and others, I've always felt that is a problem for future generations and others.
00:26We must stop the glorification of violence in our society.
00:31This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace.
00:37The internet makes things much more real and more immediate for so many young people.
00:45And we are going to have to figure out what we can do in terms of education, in terms
00:51of initiatives that let people know just what the consequences of violence mean.
01:02The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
01:07We can't reduce violence in our communities without a professional, well-trained and fully
01:13funded police force.
01:16This includes gun violence.
01:18The teacher would have a concealed gun on them.
01:21They'd go for special training and they would be there and you would no longer have a gun-free
01:28zone.
01:33One thing we do know for sure is that these shooters are invariably mentally incapacitated.
01:40Mentally incapacitated.
01:41This is a vexing problem that is extremely hard to identify in advance.
01:48Most of these problems have a lot to do with mental health.
01:51Count me in for addressing that issue.
01:54Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.
01:58When you have language that is racist, that is virulently anti-immigrant, there are mentally
02:07unstable people in this country who see that as a sign to do terrible, terrible things.
02:16Today I have issued an executive order suspending Scott Israel as the sheriff of Broward County.
02:25Suffice it to say that the massacre might never have happened had Broward had better
02:31leadership in the sheriff's department.
02:33When eight BSO deputies listened to shots fired in the school and stayed outside, they
02:40were following Sheriff Israel's policies.
02:47I want to say to the elite of this country, the elite news media, the liberal academic
02:52elite, the liberal political elite, I accuse you in Littleton and I accuse you in Kosovo
03:01of being afraid to talk about the mess you have made and being afraid to take responsibility
03:08for the things you have done and instead foisting on the rest of us pathetic banalities
03:14because you don't have the courage to look at the world you have created.
03:22ISIL has leveraged those freedoms to their advantage to attract misguided individuals
03:33who carry out acts of hate.
03:35We need a strategy to defeat ISIS, which is the inspiration for these homegrown attacks
03:41here at home.
03:42The people of Orlando responded to this unimaginable tragedy with unity, courage and generosity.
03:49They came together in a time of crisis to get things done that had to get done.
03:56Here in Congress, we must react the same way.
04:01That starts with closing the terrorist gun loophole.
04:04I guess the lesson of Orlando, the lesson of San Bernardino, the lessons that we've
04:10learned all across America with these horrible mass shootings, we need to do a better job
04:17in America keeping guns out of the hands of those who would misuse them.
04:21Felons, mentally unstable and people with a terrorist connection have no business owning
04:27guns in America.