Vivek Ramaswamy pushes mental health treatment to solve gun violence
Joseph Russell
Published Mar 15, 2026
Vivek Ramaswamy has been sharing his conservative ideas with people in every corner of Iowa. One scheduled campaign stop brought him to Perry the day someone started shooting on the high school campus.
He and host Jim NIedelman picked up the conversation there.
“We have a mental-health epidemic in this country,” he said. “Violence is just one symptom of it.”
Click on the video to hear more of what Vivek Ramaswamy has to say.
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