Soon Trump teases the action on gun control, but remains shy about some details

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he hoped to quickly see legislative action to deal with a series of shootings en masse, but he remained shy as to what he would support exactly.

Answering questions posed by reporters following a White House event on the opioid crisis, the president said any gun reform proposal should be bipartisan.

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Trump also expressed hope that the imminent return of Congress after a one – month suspension would result in an agreement "soon". He explained that he was considering "many different concepts and many different elements" in response to recent attacks, "including mental health is, in my view, a very important element."

This would include, he said, the reopening one way or another of closed psychiatric facilities.

"I have had a lot of telephone discussions and a few meetings with different people in the Senate and the House of Representatives and we will make good decisions very soon," he said. "We are in contact with a lot of different people, many proposals have been put forward, I have heard 29 different proposals, so the proposals are not lacking, so we have to see what happens."

"People want to find a solution if we can," he added.

However, Trump was not quick to approve a bill passed by the House that would impose a universal background check on all firearms sales, but echoed the arguments of gun rights advocates at home. fire.

"If you look at some of the harshest and most comprehensive ideas that have been put forward, it would not have ended any of these large-scale shootings in recent years," Trump said, despite reports that the suspect a shootout that occurred this weekend in Odessa, Texas, may have purchased the rifle used in the unleashing through a private sale after failing an audit a federal history.

Firearms advocates have become impatient at Washington's lack of action, with some accusing Senate Majority Mitch McConnell of challenging Trump's reluctant support for a large number of projects. .

Trump hinted on Wednesday that he would very much oppose the influential gun lobby, saying they might be unhappy with the solution he ends up supporting, but that "everything is fine" if he is under the shock of the NRA.

"We will do what is right," he told reporters, although he added that he thought the ANR wanted the same thing.