Fox News resident psychiatrist and Medical A-Team member Dr. Keith Ablow used an active shooting situation at an Oregon high school to pre-emptively attack "anti-gun nuts" for wanting to talk about gun saftey laws.
As the news was breaking of a shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale that reportedly left at least one person dead, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle asked Ablow to talk about what could have led to the shooting.
"So often we see people are making these choices, some of it is premeditated," Guilfoyle explained. "There are thoughts that they've recorded in a diary, online, in YouTube videos. Perhaps they've been seeking the help from a mental help professional -- like yourself -- troubled individuals, maybe problems at home. We have to try and unravel it to find out how it happened."
"I think Americans may finally be getting the idea that the first thing they should think about is mental health gone awry in this system we have that's so fractured that let's people slip through the cracks," Ablow opined.
"But the anti-gun nuts, they will be out in force, saying it's all the guns," he continued. "I predict that we'll find again that yet another person who used a gun was compromised by one or more psychological or psychiatric illnesses that could have been detected."
Ablow said that he never questioned why shootings happened because he worked as a psychiatrist.
He added: "And I see and get these calls from ERs where they say, 'We want to send this person home, he threatened his mother and his family last night. But now he's promising he's fine. And we've got to get him out of here because the insurance company is on our back.' That's our system. That's why this is happening."
