The day before the latest school shooting, Speaker Paul Ryan said that mental health reform is crucial to ensuring that mass shootings are prevented in the future.

“One of the things we’ve learned from these shootings is often underneath this is a diagnosis of mental illness.” 

He also pointed out that Republicans spent years working on mental health reform, passing a bill proposed that was signed into law by President Obama.

“That’s why the House of Representatives passed landmark mental health reform just a year ago. That law is now being implemented. It’s important that as we see the dust settle and we see what was behind some of these tragedies, that mental health reform is a critical ingredient to making sure that we can try and prevent some of these things from happening in the past.”

After this week’s school shooting in Florida Ryan stated,

“This is not the time to jump to some conclusion not knowing the full facts. We’ve got a lot more information we need to know.”

“If there are gaps there, then we need to look at those gaps,”, and then explained that Congress may need to take action to make sure people with mental illnesses don’t “slip through the cracks” and get guns.

 “I don’t think that means you then roll that conversation into taking away citizens’ rights — taking away a law-abiding citizens’ rights. Obviously, this conversation typically goes there. Right now, I think we need to take a breath and collect the facts.”

And he made this point,

“So, if there’s someone who’s not supposed to get a gun who’s getting a gun, then we’ve got to figure out why that’s happening and fix that.”

It’s hard to consider that dealing with possible solutions that could help make the latest school shooting the last one is a knee-jerk reaction, and that we have to wait to get more facts when we have already had

• 42 incidents of gun violence, which resulted in 25 fatalities and 65 injuries in the Midwest
• 38 fatalities and 21 injuries in the Northeast, which included Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children were killed
• 75incidents of gun violence, which resulted in 47 fatalities and 126 injuries in the South, and
• 55 incidents of gun violence, which resulted in 65 fatalities and 124 injuries out West

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In his response to the shooting Trump tweeted,

“So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!”

On the morning after the shooting, during his remarks addressing it, Trump said,

“Our administration is working closely with local authorities to investigate the shooting and learn everything we can. We are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools, and tackle the difficult issue of mental health.”

So the two responses so far has been to wait again before doing anything, which, if the past is any indication, means doing nothing, and to not mention guns, but, instead address mental illness.

The problem there is that just after explaining the Texas church shooting last year as

“This is a mental health problem at the highest level. It’s a very, very sad event. These are great people, and a very, very sad event. But that’s the way I view it”,

not only did Trump’s budget cut $400 million from mental health programs, but then he eliminated the Obama administration rule that required the Social Security Administration to submit records of mentally disabled people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the FBI database used to determine if someone can buy a firearm under the  Brady Bill.

Saying that mass shootings are the result of mental illness, and telling the families of those who died, and the survivors in Florida that

“Our entire nation, with one heavy heart, is praying for the victims and their families. To every parent, teacher, and child who is hurting so badly, we are here for you — whatever you need, whatever we can do, to ease your pain. We are all joined together as one American family, and your suffering is our burden also”,

seems hollow sentiments.

But Trump did tweet,

“My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school.”

Paul Ryan told the press,

“Let us all keep the victims in our hearts. A long night lies ahead for many families. Right now, the whole country is standing with the Parkland community.”

Doing something after the many shootings, one involving elementary school kids, is a knee jerk reaction, while reflexively regurgitating “thoughts and prayers” while historically solving nothing, isn’t.