The White House said Mr Obama’s visit to the Florida city where Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State militant group during a three-hour attack at the Pulse nightclub, was not about the gunman but comforting the victims of the deadliest mass-shooting in modern USA history.
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At least 50 people were killed and 53 more wounded Sunday, making it the deadliest mass shooting in American history. “And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well”.
After the deaths at Sandy Hook, President Obama appointed a task force to come up with a gun control package. Wish it were good enough for Congress.
“Do Republican officials actually agree with this?”
Omar Mateen carried out the attack at Pulse in Orlando with a Sig Sauer MCX semiautomatic rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol. “Reinstate the assault weapons ban”.
The shooters in the December San Bernardino attack were armed with illegally altered.223-caliber semiautomatic weapons.
Mateen was killed in a shootout with police.
The presumptive GOP nominee recently flipped his position on the assault weapons ban. The shooters all used a rapid-fire, military-style rifle. “It might look like the same gun, but it’s not”, explained Giles.
In recent years, news of mass shootings have often led to a spike in gun sales, as fears about personal safety grow and some gun buyers worry that regulatory crackdowns would make it harder to purchase weapons. The President has said that on many occasions. “To allow the actions of a terrorist to affect the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans is an anathema”. Members have refused to restore the ban since then, despite support from the public and from law enforcement. “I absolutely wouldn’t [ban assault rifles] because people need protection; they have to protect”, he said, adding that, otherwise, “the bad guys will have the assault rifles and the people trying to protect themselves will be standing there with a BB gun”.
The New York Daily News will thank the National Rifle Association (NRA) for the Orlando shooting incident.
For Obama, the trip to Orlando was an unwelcome return to one of the most hard roles a president must fulfill: comforting the nation at times when few words seem capable of providing much comfort. “Law-abiding gun owners are exhausted of being blamed for the acts of madmen and terrorists”, he wrote.
The last major study, done in 2007 by the Small Arms Survey, said the United States has 88.8 guns for every 100 people, more than No. 2 Yemen, which had 54.9 per 100 residents, and No. 3 Switzerland, with 45.7 guns per 100 people. Unfortunately, despite numerous attacks using similar legal firearms, they are still available for purchase by anyone who clears a background check.
To those who now care more about purporting pro-gun falsehoods on Facebook than they do about protecting actual human life, how many more innocent lives will be taken before you decide that weapons of war shouldn’t be in the hands of deranged civilians?
Democrats go after gun owners the way Trump targets Muslims. That is the “loophole, ” or exception, that Obama and others want to end.
Hillary Clinton on gun control.
Clinton drew sustained applause and several standing ovations when she spoke a pre-scheduled event in Cleveland, Ohio.
Previous gun control record: Schumer has previously supported stricter gun laws, including the legislation that would prevent suspected terrorists from legally purchasing firearms.
In countries with smarter gun laws, gun violence is greatly reduced – this is a fact that can not be debated. Trump said that terrorism was part of the reason why he had changed his mind.
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The long list of gun-related attacks during his tenure – including at a military installation in Fort Hood, Texas; an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut; and an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina – has drawn the president to a somber tableau of diverse communities bound together by little more than their grief and fortitude in the face of unspeakable horrors. Hai Do was the editor. Write to us in the Comments Section and share your views on our Facebook Page.
