Obama urges Congress to reinstate assault weapons ban

As in the wake of other mass shooting incidents in the US, politicians, pundits and activists used the violence in Orlando as a springboard to talk about gun control.

America needs tough gun safety laws and they need to be passed at both federal and state levels, which is why the League of Women Voters of Florida calls on Congress to make passage of a 2016 assault weapon ban their first priority.

How should America react to the Orlando mass shooting?

Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, was a concealed weapons permit holder who legally bought the AR-15 he used in the nightclub shootings.

With an assault-gun-ban rifle, he’d have killed half as many people.

The FBI said he had an unspecified third weapon in his vehicle during Sunday’s attack, which ended after more than three hours when Mateen was shot dead in a gun battle with police. It’s so easy to buy one here. The failure of our political parties to get beyond the politics is getting people killed. Kissimmee is a city just south of Orlando.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said the chamber will most likely vote on four gun control measures on Monday. “We have to go after these terrorist organisations and hit them hard”.

“The terrorist in Orlando had been investigated multiple times by the Federal Bureau of Investigation”.

This time the National Rifle Association didn’t wait to respond – it fought back hard and fast. Well, the NRA said the CDC was trying to use science to promote gun control.

Cox wrote that gun laws didn’t stop attacks in San Bernardino, Brussels or Paris. Here is a surely incomplete list of people that gun rights activists believe should be packing heat. But I also implore all Americans to rise above the divisive rhetoric of the gun lobby and the hateful voices who aim to turn one group of Americans against another.

“It could be either with a gun or with a knife (to harm people)”, she added. Although she took it further than the president by actually using the term “radical ISLAM”, her answer was more of the same.

The gunman was an American-born citizen whose parents came from Afghanistan more than 30 years ago.

Indeed, even after the Sandy Hook massacre – the 2012 shooting at an elementary school that killed 20 children aged six and seven – there was no concerted public outcry for more gun control. His new saying is a suspension of immigration from parts of the world where there is a proven link between that country and terrorism. What kind of people do we want to be? It doesn’t reflect our democratic ideals. They further argue that bans on the weapons wouldn’t work since there are already millions of them in circulation.

“Where does this stop?”

Gun sales in Utah have been higher the last few days, which is something gun store owners say is common across the nation after a mass shooting.

“Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently?”