General election will soon be cast. A handful of states are scheduled to mail out Absentee Ballots in the coming days. North carolina was supposed to be the first state to send out Ballots Yesterday, but that was delayed last minute due to a lawsuit filed by Robert F Kennedy junior who dropped out of the president ial race two weeks ago, but now he wants his name removed from the ballot to prevent spoiling the candidacy of Donald Trump. More than 130,000 voters registered in North Carolina have requested Absentee Ballots so far but it is unclear when they will receive them because the state may have to reprint the ballots which is an effort that could add days to the delay. Meanwhile, among the other states scheduled to begin early voting are illinois, minnesota, virginia and pennsylvania. A Swing State that figures heavily into both campaign electoral strategies. All of that is happening against new developments in the president ial campaign, as well as Donald Trumps legal bowels. Bat
elsewhere and congress has thus far done nothing. i ve been talking to lawmakers all day today who is agree that perhaps it is time to do something, although it is not entirely clear what. i asked chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and he would see any legislation come across his desk and here is what he told me would be a priority. it seems to be common for a lot of these shootings, in fact almost all of the shootings, and that is the mental state of the people that are doing it. and we have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a gun getting their name into the fbi files and we need to concentrate on that. and the irony is one of the few things of the trump administration has done about guns during the tenure is to undo some obama-era regulations that did exactly that. so for folks looking to congress to act, you re probably going to
have to wait longer. garrett haake on capitol hill. if you don t know much about firearms, you probably are familiar with the ar-15. it is a semi automatic weapon referred to as america s gun. it is a customizable and adaptable weapon. there is an estimate that we own 8 million and being used in tragedies like yesterday s shooting. in the past 11 years, ar-15 style weapons have been used in 12 mass shootings. ar-15 have been used in five. here is a look at them. first, october of 2007 in wisconsin, six people were shot and killed. in 2015, one person was shot and killed in little water, new mexico and a few months later two people were shot and killed in conyers, georgia and then three people shot and killed in colorado springs and in october of last year we had the vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. hist
of guns. one year ago donald trump rolled back an obama era regulation that was designed to make it more difficult for people with mental health issues to buy a gun. for more on the president s comments, i m joined by geoff bennett at the white house. reporter: the president doesn t seem to think that gun restrictions are the solution to gun violence and that speech part of which you showed the president quoted scripture anden occureraged the country s children to seek help if they feel alone or afraid and as you pointed out, he avoided any issue of gun violence and a reporter asked the president once he was done if he was willing to consider anything in terms of new gun laws, the president didn t respond. and look, the president has often pointed to mental illness as the u the underlying issue but this is a president in which the president s words and actions seemed misaligned because as you pointed out a year ago he evoked the obama era
making plans for the president to come here to parkland, florida and meet with families. trump announced that himself in a speech this morning, remarks about the shooting this morning. he spoke for seven minutes but he didn t say the word gun , instead focusing on mental illness. we re committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. later this month i will be meeting with the nation s governors and attorney generals, where making our schools and our children safer will be our top priority. it is not enough to simply take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference. we must actually make that difference. some people think the issue is all about mental health. others think it is about guns. but let s say you agree with the president, that it is about mental health and the ownership