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Speaker Ryan: ‘We Need To Fix Our Mental Illness Laws, Our Policies, They Are Outdated’ [VIDEO]

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Speaker of the House [crscore]Paul Ryan[/crscore] explained in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting that “we need to fix our mental illness laws, our policies. They are outdated, and that is something that we are working on right now.”

Appearing on “CBS This Morning” on Thursday, Ryan said, “There are multiple things that need to be addressed and we are working on those that need to be addressed. Including whether somebody is coming here or inspiring someone to do these things because of their ideological or religious reasons or the mental health issue. Which we know is a common theme among these shootings and that’s something we’re working on.”

Ryan insisted “This is just a horrible event. I mean, my stomach turns like any American when they see this kind of violence and you can’t help but watch this on TV and yell at the tv and say, ‘What can we do to prevent this from happening?'”

“So obviously, we are thinking of those things. This particular shooting in San Bernardino, there’s just too much unknowns before we speculate about the origin of this one,” Ryan said.

“But what we have seen in a common theme among many of these mass shootings is the theme of mental illness. And we need to fix our mental illness laws, our policies. They are outdated, and that is something that we are working on right now. We are moving a bill through the process here — the Murphy legislation — because we think that is one of the more consistent and common themes. People with mental illness are getting guns and conducting these mass shootings.”

“Now, without knowing the facts in San Bernardino, we also know that there are home-grown jihadists. We also know there are ISIS inspirational events and we need to figure out how to handle that as well,” Ryan claimed.

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