U.S. Rep. Ted Budd told his Rotarian audience Friday that banning assault weapons was just a “feel better” strategy that ignored the nation’s real ills and would not solve its persistent problem with mass killings.
People
have an ingrained tendency to “blame the device” behind tragedies while
ignoring the root causes of America’s recurrent spate of killing
sprees, said the first-term Republican congressman from Advance during a
luncheon address.
“You have to
look at laws that don’t just make us feel better in the short term, but
laws that actually make a difference — and we have to deal with mental
illness,” Budd said. “There are two sources of these mass shootings: One
is mental illness — that’s probably the biggest — and the other is
radical Islamic terrorism.
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