Experts Say Mental Illness Isn’t Main Driver Of Mass Shootings

PITTSBURGH (KDKA)– Experts say President Donald Trump’s focus on “mentally ill monsters” oversimplifies the role of mental illness in public mass shootings and downplays the ease with which Americans can get firearms.
Trump on Monday addressed weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio that killed 31 people. Trump said, “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.”
In response, mental health experts are repeating what they’ve said after previous m