Agog, not just because it’s an insane thing to say about a fellow politician, but because I can’t believe he doesn’t recognize how viscerally upsetting this could be to a parent or relation or friend of someone who’s intellectually disabled.
The US has ten same rates of mental illness as peer nations, but a 25 times higher rate of gun homicide. And people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violent crime than the perpetrators. Nikki knows this but can’t alienate her base of gun extremists.