Pres. Trump says his administration is committed to working with Congress to 'stop the menace of mass attacks' as he bemoans the 'monstrous' and 'wicked' rampage by a gunman in western Texas.
President Donald Trump expressed a commitment Sunday, hours after the latest deadly mass shooting, to work with a divided Congress to"stop the menace of mass attacks." He said any measures must satisfy the competing goals of protecting public safety and the constitutional right to gun ownership and seemed to cast fresh doubt on the merits of instituting more thorough background checks for gun purchases.
"We want to substantially reduce the violent crime," Trump said at the top of a briefing about Hurricane Dorian at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington. "For the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five going back even five or six or seven years, for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it," he said."So it's a big problem. It's a mental problem. It's a big problem."
Trump told reporters earlier Sunday that he's been speaking to lawmakers from both political parties and"people want to do something." He said the administration is"looking at a lot of different things" and hopes to have a package ready by the time Congress returns to session next week. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said he has discussed the issue with Trump and described the president as"very interested in doing something meaningful." Toomey has long pushed a bipartisan bill with Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to expand background checks and said he remains interested in measures to keep guns away from people who shouldn't have them.Others, like Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, argued that Congress should use his state as a model.
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