Hillary Clinton rails against gun violence, gun lobby

Hillary Clinton is issuing a fresh plea for stricter gun control after yesterday’s mass shooting in California.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Friday that any official involved with suppressing the release of a video of the shooting death of a black teen by a white Chicago police officer should be “held accountable” and, if necessary, resign.

Authorities need to finish their investigation, Clinton said, but she added that the situation “raises serious questions” about how Americans should be protected and how to ensure that the USA has the best possible intelligence. During her remarks, the candidate tweeted “We can not go on with losing 90 people a day to gun violence…We need to take action now”.

“I mean they didn’t even know any of the facts about this and they immediately jumped on it as an opportunity to push their gun control agenda even though no gun laws would have prevented this from occurring”, Rubio said in New Hampshire.

USA police have killed at least 1,000 people in 2015.

“We don’t know yet everything about this specific attack”, Clinton said.

She said the nation needs to be vigilant and cooperative, “collecting and analyzing information”, and urged the government to “redouble our efforts to dismantle the global structure of terrorism”. “It’s important to remember”, she said, “the vast majority of Muslim Americans are just as concerned and heartbroken about this as anyone else”.

Clinton pivoted to the “most troubling issue”, which she said was Congressional Republicans’ refusal to allow a vote to ban individuals on the Department of Homeland Security’s no-fly list from purchasing guns. “If you are too unsafe to fly in America, you are too risky to buy a gun”. “The San Bernardino shooting was the 355th mass shooting this year”. Clinton then headlined a town hall at a Fort Dodge, Iowa, community college, where she spoke how the shooting was now being considered “an act of terrorism”. After the nine people were killed in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, Clinton said the United States has to “keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the violently unstable while respecting responsible gun owners”.

Skudlarek said that politicians offering “thoughts and prayers” is not enough.

“She says she’s for labor and labor-friendly and wants to spend all this money on infrastructure and stuff”, he said.