House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said the Minneapolis shooting suspect “never should have had access or been able to possess a firearm” given the shooter’s apparent mental health issues.
During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked Emmer about plans to prevent someone with mental health issues from enacting violence, to which he responded that the “mental health crisis in this country is one of the main problems that we are faced with today,” adding that “we’ve got to figure out how to deal with it.”
He added that if a person identifies someone who might need help, it’s important to report them “to the appropriate authorities.”…