Sen. Rick Scott says laws to combat mass shootings should focus on mental illness.
“I’ve talked to the president, the White House, I’ve talked to Mitch McConnell and others. I think they ought to look at what we did in Florida after Parkland,” Scott said Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
"We've got to figure out how we get guns away from mentally ill people who want to harm others or themselves," Scott said. In the wake of that shooting, Florida passed a measure that included, among other provisions, raising the legal age for firearm purchases to 21 years old, expanding a waiting period for gun purchases and allowing for some, trained school employees to be armed.
During his interview, Scott focused on the ‘red flag’ provision and argued that there are “too many people that have mental illness” who “have access to weapons, and they shouldn’t.”
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