Dem Rep. Ivey: ‘Sometimes’ You Don’t Get Good Answers on Assassin Motives, ‘Key’ Is Gun Control

On Friday’s broadcast of the early edition of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) stated that while we try to look for motives behind assassins and would-be assassins, many of them “have mental health issues, and so, sometimes, we’re not going to get good answers is the bottom line. I think the key piece, though, is to try and figure out a way, regardless of how you feel about the Second Amendment, there’s got to be a way to keep these high-powered weapons out of the hands of people who have red flags and mental health issues.”

Ivey said that “tone down the rhetoric, let’s come together in a bipartisan way,” are immediate steps that can be taken.

Later, he added, “[A] lot of times, these cases, you try and look at the motives behind people who were trying to shoot, like the guy in Butler who tried to assassinate Mr. Trump, I don’t think it’s ever been really made clear, fully, what motivated him, and a lot of these people have mental health issues, and so, sometimes, we’re not going to get good answers is the bottom line. I think the key piece, though, is to try and figure out a way, regardless of how you feel about the Second Amendment, there’s got to be a way to keep these high-powered weapons out of the hands of people who have red flags and mental health issues.”

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