‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Rip Apart GOP Blaming Mental Health and Not Guns Following Mass Shooting in Chicago

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who died at Monday’s parade, and whose toddler was found wandering around by passerbys. “It’s not because of mental health that Mr. [Nicolas] Toledo won’t be with his grandchildren ever again.

It’s because unlike other countries, we allow people to buy weapons of war, and we allow them to buy weapons of war without really doing a significant background check because you’ve got a party that’s against universal background checks,” Scarborough continued, advocating for a more significant purchase process before people are allowed to obtain “AR-style weapons … weapons designed for war.”Brzezinski, “Morning Joe” co-host and spouse to Scarborough, echoed his statements, saying she was “really tired” of hearing members of the GOP, who have been involved in cuts to mental health services, “saying mental health is the problem.”“’We got to talk about mental–.’ We’re talking about mental health.

Stop hiding behind something not only we’re talking about, but we’re doing something about,” she said. “In fact, the latest bill, the gun legislation that was passed addresses mental health.

There’s nobody who knows more than Democrats and teachers and mental health professionals and anybody who knows someone who’s suffering, anybody who’s on social media, that mental health is a huge struggle.