White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the day after the deadliest mass shooting in the nation’s history is not the time to renew a debate over gun control.
Sanders was asked Monday during the press briefing that there is a “time and place” for a debate but that is “not the place we’re in at this moment.”
She said President Donald Trump was focused on the victims and stressed that it was a “time to unite the country.”
Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama frequently used mass shootings to call for stricter gun control laws. Trump did not mention firearms during his remarks earlier Monday after a gunman in Las Vegas and killed 58 people and injured at least 515 others.
The Republican president has cast himself as a friend to firearms owners and the powerful National Rifle Association lobby.
Meanwhile, as details were still emerging about the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history – which killed at least 58 people and injured more than 500 people – twice-failed Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted about the attack on Monday morning. She wrote:
“The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get,” she tweeted, adding: “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.”
The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.
Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 2, 2017
Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 2, 2017
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords raised her fist at the Capitol and said “the nation is counting on you” after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Giffords, who was grievously wounded in 2011, and her husband Mark Kelly were at the Capitol on Monday. They said the nation’s thoughts and prayers are not enough and Congress must pass legislation to keep deadly weapons out of the wrong hands.
Kelly and Giffords had planned to campaign for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, but instead they went to the Capitol to comment on the shooting.
Citing President Donald Trump, Kelly said “Americans need more than our president’s prayers. We need his plans.”
Kelly is calling for a commission to work on solutions to gun violence. He says it’s the only acceptable moral course for the country.
(AP)
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This מכשפה always manages to take chutzpah, ignorance, and politicization to new heights. Her followers at CNN even proclaimed that the Trump response would be decisive and quick because the victims were Trump supporters. As if they conducted a survey. They are political mouthpieces, and construe every single event to fit their own agenda. I wish we were rid of these immoral biological accidents. I have no problem with someone with a different ideology, but these fools are successfully manipulating the opinions of too many people who really don’t understand.
I would have thought you were talking about the other Hilary Clinton but the title helped to clarify it’s the twice failed presidential candidate.
Clintons are like cockroaches, they never go away.