Article snippet: President Trump said mental health, not guns, is to blame for the church shooting massacre that left at least 26 people dead in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, calling the assailant a "very deranged individual." "Mental health is your problem here. This was a very, based on preliminary reports, a very deranged individual, a lot of problems over a long period of time. We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries. But this isn't a guns situation," President Trump said of the First Baptist Church shooting during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The president went on to say that it's a "little bit soon" to be talking about guns following the tragic event, and suggested that the death toll could have been higher had it not been for another armed individual who opened fire on the assailant, according to witnesses. "Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction otherwise ... it would have been much worse," the president said. "This is a mental health problem at the highest level." The president again offered his condolences over the shooting and pondered aloud about the horror that stuck the Sutherland Springs community. "Who would ever think a thing like this could happen?" Prime Minister Abe also offered his sympathies to the United States over the shooting. "I'd like to express my heart-felt solidarity to the people of the United States in this time o... Link to the full article to read more