Recently a third mass shooting incident was reported for a third consecutive week in the U.S. 

U.S. Senator for Iowa Charles Grassley supports ways to help individuals with mental health issues that seems to correlate with mass shootings. Grassley tells Raccoon Valley Radio that he re-introduced the EAGLES Act, which was first introduced in the Senate in 2018, following the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. 

Grassley says his bill is modeled after a program that the U.S. Secret Service does with law enforcement through seminars to teach them how to identify individuals that may be suffering from a mental illness, with his bill to instill the same training for educators.

“This guy that killed so many kids down in Parkland, Florida, he had been intervened about 40 times. People said, ‘This guy could be a problem’ (and) they never got him to any mental health. This is to train teachers how to recognize that.”

Grassley notes this bill is one step toward preventing possible future incidents from happening at schools.