Article snippet: MORE said Sunday that he is still talking to Congress about measures to stem gun violence but that Saturday’s shooting in West Texas that left seven people dead “hasn’t changed anything.” Trump also asserted that stricter background checks wouldn’t have stopped mass shootings over the past several years. “We're looking at the same things,” Trump told reporters at the White House after returning from a weekend at Camp David. “It really hasn't changed anything." “A lot of people are talking about it, and that’s irrespective of what happened yesterday in Texas,” Trump said of possible gun reform measures. Trump noted that he is talking to lawmakers and mentioned background checks but claimed “they would not have stopped any” of the mass shootings over the past several years. He also repeated that he believes gun violence is a mental health issue. “We're looking at a lot of different things. We're looking at a lot of different bills, ideas, concepts. It's been going on for a long while,” Trump told reporters. “Background checks — I will say that for the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five, going back even five or six or seven years — for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it. So it's a big problem. It's a mental problem. It's a big problem,” Trump said. Authorities said the gunman, who has yet to be identified, was shot and killed after going on a shooting spree Saturday afternoon that... Link to the full article to read more