The US mourns another shooting massacre, just weeks after worst in modern history
Sutherland Springs, United States — The US was in mourning on Monday after a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire with an assault rifle on the congregation of a small-town Texas church, killing 26 people and wounding 20 more in the nation’s latest shooting massacre. Five weeks after the worst shooting in modern US history President Donald Trump said the nation was living in “dark times,” and ordered flags be flown at half-mast at the White House and federal buildings in the aftermath of the most recent tragedy. Trump called the shooting a “mental health problem”, not “a guns situation”. When asked what policies he might support in response to the shooting at a media conference in Tokyo, the US president said that based on preliminary reports, the gunman was “a very deranged individual, a lot of problems”. “We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries. But this isn’t a guns situation,” he said. “Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was sh...
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