Obama: It’s possible Calif. shooting was terrorism-related

And of course Republicans don’t address this simple fact: the overwhelming majority of gun homicides in America are not committed by people who have been declared mentally ill. At least 17 others were injured – many by bullets, others in the panic to escape.

If Republicans (and I’d put special focus on the presidential candidates, since they’re the ones who can get the most attention) are going to argue that the answer to gun violence is mental health reforms, they ought to be forced to get specific. Area counties have for years seen heightened interest in people obtaining permits to carry concealed weapons as well. His first stop there in June was three days after a gunman killed nine people at a Charleston, S.C., church. That’s compared to 6,607 through September previous year. “Bloomberg wants to ban your soft drinks and snack foods, drive up your electricity bills and take away your gun rights”.

But Earnest conceded the proposals Obama has pushed – expanding background checks or barring people on a federal no-fly from buying guns – would not necessarily have prevented this massacre.

“This discussion is about what we can do to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them”, Earnest said.

“Mr. Tyler said that the event had been arranged before the shooting on Wednesday in San Bernardino, Calif., and that the campaign had no discussion about rescheduling”.

The increased interest typically follows violent acts that lead to mass fatalities, said Pedro, a former police officer.

“The Democrats, they are aided and abetted by their friends and allies in the media who share the same goal of telling the people ‘here, abandon hope ye all who enter, ‘ ” Cruz said. The number of gun homicides was 11,208.

Since then, White House officials have been trying to draft an executive order that would effectively reinterpret existing law to require all or most such sales to go through the background check system. “I have absolutely no idea”, Khan said, expressing condolences for the victims and their families.

Obama said on Thursday the motivation for the deadly shooting in California was not yet known, but a terror attack could not be ruled out.

The regions is also seeing a jump in the interest for CCWs.

When the mass shooters show up, it’s too late to call the police. The phone here has been going insane. A flight attendant has just asked me if there is anything she can do for me, and I said: thanks, but no. “We must take action to stop gun violence now”. “So there’s a little bit of a lag”. New permits were up to 2,098 through November, compared to 1,410 all of last year; while renewals this year were 1,171, down from 1,707 all of last year. He had worked there for five years.

Everytown for Gun Safety said its membership spiked by 20,000, to 3.5 million, in the hours after the California shooting – in which a young married couple armed with assault-style rifles left their infant daughter in the care of a grandmother before opening fire at a workplace holiday party.

“We hear about ISIS attacks here and there”, Fischer said. And here is what that consensus is about, supported by a strong majority of the American people.

The reality, though, at least in the United States, is that mass killings rarely involve multiple shooters. While it’s legal to sell in OH, an informal survey of area retailers Thursday found it hard to come by. Moreover, we must recognize that we are in a war in which we are all in the army now.

“We have to make our homes and our communities what we want them to be”.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Justice Department will be offering “any and all assistance necessary” as the investigation into the California mass shooting continues. He and Malik went into the building and began firing, police said.

The raid: Law enforcement personnel moved in on the home in Redlands.