Giuliani: Obama Gun Bill Needs Stronger Mental-Health Provisions

NEWS MAX: Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said on Monday that the major problem facing President Barack Obama’s proposed gun-control legislation was that it failed to substantively address mental-health issues.

“If you’re not addressing the mental-health part of this, you’re not really addressing the problem,” Giuliani, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2001, told Piers Morgan on CNN. “That’s 70 percent of the problem. Gun control is probably 30 percent of the problem.

“The president could have made it more difficult for Republicans to vote against it, and probably could’ve gotten more Republicans to vote for it, if he had included substantial mental-health provisions,” he said… (more)

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