{"id":76305,"date":"2019-08-05T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T03:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=76305"},"modified":"2019-08-05T22:06:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T03:06:31","slug":"share-on-facebook-share-on-twitter-share-via-email-print-this-page-comments-us-politics-2020-democrats-back-gun-limits-after-el-paso-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/08\/05\/share-on-facebook-share-on-twitter-share-via-email-print-this-page-comments-us-politics-2020-democrats-back-gun-limits-after-el-paso-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Democrats Back Gun Limits After El Paso Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA – LAS VEGAS – Democratic presidential candidates expressed outrage Saturday that mass shootings have becoming chillingly common nationwide and blamed the National Rifle Association and its congressional allies after a gunman opened fire at a shopping area near the Texas-Mexico border. \u201cIt\u2019s not just today, it has happened several times this week. It\u2019s happened here in Las Vegas where some lunatic killed 50 some odd people,\u201d Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said as he and 18 other White House hopefuls were in Nevada to address the nation\u2019s largest public employees union. \u201cAll over the world, people are looking at the United States and wondering what is going on? What is the mental health situation in America, where time after time, after time, after time, we\u2019re seeing indescribable horror.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sanders blasted Republican Senate leadership for being \u201cmore concerned about pleasing the NRA than listening to the vast majority of the American people\u201d and said that President Donald Trump has a responsibility to support commonsense gun safety legislation.<\/p>\n

At least 20 people were killed amid back-to-school shopping in El Paso. A 21-year-old man was taken into custody, law enforcement officials said.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the shooting and before its death toll was widely reported, White House officials said Trump was briefed while spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf club. He conveyed his initial reaction on Twitter, writing that the shooting was \u201cterrible\u201d and that he was in close consultation with state officials. He turned to other topics, tweeting a note of encouragement to UFC fighter Colby Covington, a Trump supporter, and retweeting a pair of messages that furthered his recent argument that African Americans had flourished under his administration.<\/p>\n

The shooting was far more personal for former Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke, an El Paso native who represented the city in Congress for six years. He suspended campaigning to fly home and \u201cbe with my family and be with my hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, O\u2019Rourke appeared shaken as he told the union forum he\u2019d heard early reports that the shooter might have had a military-style weapon, saying the country needs to \u201ckeep that (expletive) on the battlefield. Do not bring it into our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Rourke said the U.S. may require direct action, urgency and in some cases nonviolent civil disobedience, to make real change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in this country. I believe, at the end of the day, we\u2019re going to be able to get this done,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it\u2019s going to be because of those people who force it to get done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Vice President Joe Biden said he tried to call O\u2019Rourke and told reporters, \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a sickness,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThis is beyond anything that we should be tolerating.\u201d He added: \u201cWe can beat the NRA. We can beat the gun manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n

A visibly frustrated Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said: \u201cI believe that the NRA have long dominated American politics to the point where they have stopped sensible legislation that would have prevented deaths and prevented killings. They have done it time and time again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, noted: \u201cWe are the only country in the world with more guns than people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has not made us safer,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can respect the Second Amendment and not allow it to be a death sentence for thousands of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

California Sen. Kamala Harris promised to use an executive action within her first 100 days of taking office to impose gun control. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said, \u201cThis has got to be a movement, politics or not, we\u2019ve got to make ending this nightmare a movement before it happens to yet another community or another person dies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted: \u201cFar too many communities have suffered through tragedies like this already. We must act now to end our country\u2019s gun violence epidemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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