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| WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the country needs to take a look at whether more mental health institutions need to be opened to treat people with mental illness and avert mass shootings. | WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the country needs to take a look at whether more mental health institutions need to be opened to treat people with mental illness and avert mass shootings. |
| The president also said he would have run into the South Florida high school where 17 students and faculty members were killed in a mass shooting, even if he was not armed, and he criticized law enforcement officials who were at the scene of the school shooting but did nothing to try to stop it. He called their performances “frankly disgusting.” | The president also said he would have run into the South Florida high school where 17 students and faculty members were killed in a mass shooting, even if he was not armed, and he criticized law enforcement officials who were at the scene of the school shooting but did nothing to try to stop it. He called their performances “frankly disgusting.” |
| “You don’t know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I would have run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” the president said. | “You don’t know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I would have run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” the president said. |
| Mr. Trump’s public remarks came during a meeting with the nation’s governors, in part to discuss school safety after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. | Mr. Trump’s public remarks came during a meeting with the nation’s governors, in part to discuss school safety after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. |
| “We’re going to have to start talking about mental institutions,” Mr. Trump said, adding that there was a time when it was easier to have people who acted like a “boiler ready to explode” committed to mental institutions. | “We’re going to have to start talking about mental institutions,” Mr. Trump said, adding that there was a time when it was easier to have people who acted like a “boiler ready to explode” committed to mental institutions. |
| The recent shooting has reopened the contentious debate on gun safety and Second Amendment protections. Mr. Trump has proposed arming school staff who receive special training, improving background checks for gun purchases and raising the minimum age from 18 to 21 to buy assault rifles. On Monday, he said the closure of many of the mental institutions across the country needed to be revisited and that the institutions could potentially treat more people with mental illness. | The recent shooting has reopened the contentious debate on gun safety and Second Amendment protections. Mr. Trump has proposed arming school staff who receive special training, improving background checks for gun purchases and raising the minimum age from 18 to 21 to buy assault rifles. On Monday, he said the closure of many of the mental institutions across the country needed to be revisited and that the institutions could potentially treat more people with mental illness. |
| “You could nab somebody like this,” Mr. Trump said of the Florida gunman, Nikolas Cruz, citing the scores of warning signs that Mr. Cruz was troubled. “You can’t arrest him, I guess, because he hasn’t done anything,” Mr. Trump said. | “You could nab somebody like this,” Mr. Trump said of the Florida gunman, Nikolas Cruz, citing the scores of warning signs that Mr. Cruz was troubled. “You can’t arrest him, I guess, because he hasn’t done anything,” Mr. Trump said. |
| Mr. Trump also said he would not wait for Congress to act and he would ban equipment that can turn semiautomatic rifles into automatic ones through executive action. | Mr. Trump also said he would not wait for Congress to act and he would ban equipment that can turn semiautomatic rifles into automatic ones through executive action. |
| Mr. Trump said he had lunch with senior officials in the National Rifle Association, a powerful lobbying group that has been successful in defeating gun control measures. “They want to do something,” Mr. Trump said of the N.R.A. | Mr. Trump said he had lunch with senior officials in the National Rifle Association, a powerful lobbying group that has been successful in defeating gun control measures. “They want to do something,” Mr. Trump said of the N.R.A. |