Critics Blast GOP Lawmakers for Blaming Allen Shooting on Mental Health: 'It's Sick'

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Critics rail against Republican lawmakers who've blamed 'mental health' for the Allen mass shooting.

, as well as other gun-control efforts, Scudder said. Yet GOP politicians in the state and U.S. legislatures have instead passed laws to “protect guns, not to protect our kids,” he added.

than members of the general public. Of all violent occurrences, just 3%–5% are carried out by someone with a serious mental illness. State Sen. Nathan Johnson, a Dallas Democrat, lauded the idea of boosting mental healthcare in Texas in a Sunday news release, but Johnson also said that it “certainly won’t solve the problem of gun violence.

On social media, critics are railing against Texas Republicans. Many are tired of hearing conservative lawmakers point the finger at mental health and not at guns.

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