PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants to focus on gun “lunatics” rather than targeting Second Amendment rights when it comes to preventing mass shootings.
“When you’re dealing with [gun-related crime] … you focus on the criminal,” he said at a June 8 press conference. “You focus on the lunatic—you don’t kneecap the rights of law-abiding citizens.”
Mental health issues notwithstanding, some shooters are just “really bad people … who are doing things, targeting kids, targeting innocent people,” the governor said.
During the question-and-answer session, DeSantis was asked about the closing in 2002 of a large mental hospital that held people who were deemed a threat to society….