“This is a debate that the country is paying attention to right now and I don’t think there’s anybody that’s been more prominent in that debate than President Obama”, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday.
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“We’re learning more literally by the hour, there certainly is much more support for the view that this was a terrorist act”, Clinton said at the Carpenters Training Center in northwest Iowa.
Democrats, including President Obama, emphasize the need to address America’s problems with guns. There have been more mass shootings than calendar days this year.
Cox said those statements vilify lawful gun owners.
“What I can assure the American people is we will get to the bottom of this and we will be vigilant as we always are in getting the facts before we issue any decisive judgement”, Obama said. But, given the nature of social media, it was only seconds after the news broke that the left began attempting to ghoulishly co-opt a serious incident to shame people into supporting gun control.
Additionally, they voted 45 to 54 against a bill that would have stopped people on the terror watch list from purchasing guns. Watts explained to Refinery29 that while Congress may not be taking action on gun control, many reforms to background checks and other gun control regulations have been passed at the state level since Sandy Hook.
“I don’t understand the rationale behind that at all”, she said. It’s past time we reckon with it. An imperative first step is universal background checks to acquire a gun. Farouk was an American citizen and devout Muslim, and his wife-or-fiance was a woman from Saudi Arabia that he’d met online two years ago. The way to preserve that right is to guarantee that I won’t try to force you to practice whatever religion or lack thereof appeals to me.
Investigators are still trying to establish what led Syed Farook and his partner, Tashfeed Malik, to mount their assault in San Bernardino.
Williams says people and their government, shouldn’t be divided on an issue as big as gun control.
Regardless of whether mass killings like the one in San Bernardino are becoming more frequent, they happen far more in the U.S. than anywhere else.
With the latest mass shootings in Paris, as well as in Colorado and California fresh in the public’s mind, Democrats argued sentiment was again turning in their favour on gun control. The Mass Shooting Tracker, as its called, differs from other shooting databases in that it uses a broader definition than the FBI’s old four-fatality rule: If bullets strike four people in the same attack, that’s a mass shooting. The victims, most of whom worked for the San Bernardino Health Dept., were having a holiday party and had leased the space.
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“People are saying, you know, this no-fly list”, he said on MSNBC Thursday morning.
