But regardless of the couple’s reasons for the murders, something needs to be done to prevent gun violence, she added. But after Wednesday’s shooting they found themselves on the same page – and also in stark contrast to Republicans who pointed the finger at mental health issues and radical Islam in the wake of the shootings. While officials have shied away from calling the attack terrorism, they’re treating the investigation as a counterterrorism inquiry.
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“We don’t know yet everything about this specific attack”, she said, calling the perpetrators “killers”, and “murderers”.
Hillary Clinton now has the backing of North America’s Building Trades, an alliance of 14 national and global unions representing 3 million skilled craft professionals.
In the middle of the first Democratic debate, as he was being pressed if he was tough enough on gun control, Sanders said, “What I can tell Secretary Clinton, is that all the shouting in the world is not going to do what I would hope all of us want, and that is keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have those guns and end this disgusting violence that we are seeing”.
“I don’t see any conflict at all between going after the terrorists with everything we have got… and doing more on gun safety measures”, Clinton said in response to a CNN question during a press conference at the end of a swing through Iowa.
“It’s important to remember… the vast majority of Muslim-Americans are just as concerned and heart-broken about this as anyone else”, Clinton said at Southern New Hampshire University in Hooksett.
“I am exhausted of hearing about shootings”, she said. “But it is becoming clearer that we are dealing with an act of terrorism”.
Nearly three years after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, with mass shootings occurring nearly daily, many Americans agree with that. “Yesterday, San Bernardino, a few days ago, Colorado Springs, before that Roseburg, Oregon, before that Chattanooga, Tennessee, and on and on it goes”, Sanders said in a statement.
Law enforcement officers search for the suspects of a mass shooting December 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, California.
“The sad reality is that in America today there are many thousands of people who are walking our streets who are suicidal or homicidal”.
“They’re all afraid of the NRA”, Desmond said. People on the No Fly List are not permitted on commercial flights into or out of the United States.
Clinton has met with members of Moms Demand Action on the campaign trail and, last month in Chicago, met with family members of victims of gun violence, including the mothers of Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin.
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Renewing a call for “sensible gun safety measures”, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton chastised congressional Republicans Thursday for blocking a vote on a plan that she said would ban those on the federal government’s No Fly List from buying guns.
