Renowned actor and conservative Jon Voight issued a solemn message to the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting, saying “they have been taken down by insanity” but warning “we must not allow mental illness to take away our right to bear arms.”
“It’s not about left-right, guns or no guns; this is about brains that are dysfunctioning,” Voight said in a pair of videos posted to his Twitter account Saturday. “This is mental. This is not about healthy human beings serving the country with arms to bear, or even the right of this Constitution for bearing arms. It is a right to use arms with proper purpose to defend one’s safety.
“We must not allow mental illness to take away our right to bear arms. This is about trusting the Constitution, our rights, our reason.”
In the second video, Voight did add mentally ill individuals should be vetted through background checks for “their credentials” and “mental capacity to bear arms.”
“We must identify every individual for their credentials, for their mental capacity to bear arms,” Voight said, calling for background checks to fully vet the mentally ill. “There should be proper qualifications for gun ownership and proper testing. One should only own a gun if they’re qualified and schooled.
“I stand with all, I stand for freedom of each soul’s truths. I stand for God’s truths. I stand for one to be condemned for evil doings and that they must pay a price.”
Voight expressed a deep sadness for the 19 children and two teachers murdered by an 18-year-old gunman in a video called “My soul cries for all lost,” posted originally to Facebook.
“Oh my heart bleeds for all those who were lost; my soul cries: We must do something about these horrors they are taking out on innocent beings, humans who each have lives and years of life that they’re supposed to live,” Voight began. “They have been taken down by insanity.
“This insane, inhuman, disturbed, walking souls have grown up in households of abuse. These beings have been bullied, and they take out their disturbances, their grief, their horror on innocent souls.”
Voight, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, issued a targeted rebuke of Democrats and President Joe Biden running the country.
“My fellow Americans, we’re living now in a world that has no remorse for wrong doings, because we’re being led by the worst in office,” he began in his second video. “So let’s take a breath, let’s all ask God to make sure that we will never see this horror again in this lifetime.”
Voight concluded with a spiritual message that “God will take home these angels and comfort them.”
“May God watch over all and bring comfort for this loss, which may never heal for each child was so precious a gift. And God will call on Jesus to pray for these families. Love to you. Love to you all.”
Reporting from Newsmax.
