Fox News host Sean Hannity suggested that school districts should hire at least one person to monitor “every kid’s social media postings,” following the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday.
“It’s not a gun issue. Every time it happens, the worse — it’s always a different gun,” Hannity said during “The Sean Hannity Show” on the radio. Hannity also said mentally ill people should not have guns.
“Criminals don’t obey the laws by their very nature,” Hannity said. “We also have to have, every school district needs to have some person that monitors every kid’s social media postings. Maybe they need two people. This is a reality now that they’re telegraphing what they’re going to do. Terrorists do it. These school shooters do it.”
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said earlier in the day that it is believed that shooting suspect Dimitrios Pagourtzis used his father’s shotgun and .38 revolver during the shooting. He said that it appeared the father legally owned the gun, but was unsure whether the father knew his son had obtained the weapons.
The shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School, where Pagourtzis is a student. He has posted on his Facebook page a photo of himself in a “Born to Kill” shirt before the shooting occurred.
A total of 10 people were killed in the massacre, according to officials. Pagourtzis remains in the custody of the Santa Fe Police Department as police and federal agents investigate the crime scene and Pagourtizis’ home.
