US and state flags in CT will fly at half-staff beginning immediately until sunset on June 16, 2016, he said. She pointedly called out US partners in the region by name, saying Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar must stop their citizens from funding terrorism.
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Nial O’Reilly, Euronews: Stefan, the scale of this attack has united the country, in some ways, but it has also reopened divisions on gun control, domestic security and terrorism.
“I believe weapons of war have no place on our streets”, Clinton said.
He said “thousands and thousands of people, many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer” – whose name he insisted he will never say – are pouring into the U.S. The businessman’s initial responses to the Orlando attacks included accepting “congrats” for “being right” about the terror threat facing the U.S. He also redoubled his calls for temporarily banning Muslims from the U.S. and increasing surveillance of mosques – policies that have concerned even some of his fellow Republicans.
Neil LeVesque, Director of the Institute of politics at Saint Anselm College says he is not sure how smart the speech was but he does know that if it has put Trump, once again, in the middle of the front page story.
Trump suggested that this ban would be temporary, lasting only until the American government is “in a position to properly and perfectly screen those people coming into our country”.
Trump made the claim in his speech in Manchester, New Hampshire Monday. He had planned to use the speech to make his case against Clinton, as well as her husband Bill Clinton, but he, too, changed his focused after the shooting.
Omar Mateen, 29, the US-born son of Afghan immigrants, armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to militant group Islamic State, opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando early on Sunday.
She warned that “demagoguery” would not end terrorism.
These apparent “lone wolf” attackers have deeply anxious counterterrorism officials because they often leave fewer intelligence trails to monitor. “If the Federal Bureau of Investigation is watching you for suspected terrorist links”, she said, “you shouldn’t be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked”.
He also appeared to falsely claim that the perpetrator of the Orlando mass shooting was born outside the USA, though he was born in NY to parents from Afghanistan, while blasting Hillary Clinton for policies that he alleged would only increase the threat of terror.
While on the ABC program Good Morning America, Trump said that people from Syria should be banned from entering America.
Trump has repeatedly said he would be tough on terrorism. And either one is unacceptable in the Oval Office.
Trump also said he stood in solidarity with Orlando’s “LGBT” community. He also said there are thousands of people living in the United States “sick with hate” and capable of carrying out the sort of massacre that killed at least 49 people in a Florida nightclub. “You have people that were born in this country” who are susceptible to becoming “radicalized”, the billionaire real estate mogul said on Fox.
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“If you had guns in that room, if you had – even if you had a number of people having them strapped to their ankle or strapped to their waist, where bullets could have flown in the other direction right at him, you wouldn’t have had the same kind of a tragedy”, Trump said on CNN.
