Fact checking Trumps Mass Shooting Speech - Internet Control?? Forcibly Lock Up The Mentally ill????

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The statement President Donald Trump read from the White House on Monday morning in response to the mass shootings that took place over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, amounted to an effort to talk about everything and anything besides guns.

Trump did at one point directly denounce the type of white supremacy that motivated the El Paso shooter, saying “in one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.” But when it came to proposing policy responses, his response to shootings that left at least 31 dead and 52 injured amounted to a grab bag of ideas that avoided the real problem.

The president proposed working with social media companies to “detect mass shooters before they strike,” regulation of violent video games, “involuntary confinement” of “mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence,” and an expansion of the death penalty in cases of hate crimes or mass murders to be “delivered quickly, decisively, and without years of needless delay.” He explicitly downplayed the role high-powered guns played in the shootings, saying “mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.”

As Trump began to wrap up reading his statement, he seemed to suffer from a bad case of dry mouth, and he mistakenly claimed that the shooting in Ohio took place in Toledo, not Dayton.

Trump, struggling with a bad case of what appears to be dry mouth, falsely claimed the Ohio mass shooting took place in Toledo. (It happened in Dayton.)

While Trump was right to identify white supremacy as a major factor in the El Paso shooting, there are a few obvious rebuttals to things he said in his speech. First, people in many other countries indulge in violent video games without mass shootings being regular occurrences, so the suggestion that gaming is to blame is, at the very least, insufficient if not outright mistaken.

Second, considering First Amendment rights and the fact that the internet is international, there are questions about how efficacious government regulations of social media can be in preventing mass shootings. Third, mass shooters often commit acts of violence without expecting to survive, so the notion that expanding the death penalty will deter them is dubious. And finally, people with mental illnesses are far more likely to be the victims of gun violence than they are to perpetrate it.

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