Sanders calls for accountability of Chicago officials

Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have called for new gun regulations in the aftermath of the December 2 shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 and injured 17 individuals.

“It’s important to remember… the vast majority of Muslim-Americans are just as concerned and heart-broken about this as anyone else”, Clinton said at Southern New Hampshire University in Hooksett.

Clinton said during the presser that questioning whether one of her top gun issues – banning people on the “No Fly List” from purchasing weapons – would have prevented what happened in San Bernardino was “like the question: ‘How do you prove a negative?'” “If you are too risky to fly in America, you are too unsafe to buy a gun”. Perez praised Clinton as an advocate for workers, telling supporters, “Her North Star is the middle class”.

Gun control is an issue that appears to continually trip up Sanders with the liberal base.

“We need to have more programs to help families defray the costs”, Clinton said.

Clinton has made the issue of gun violence, and calls for “common sense” gun reforms, a major part of her policy agenda as she seeks the Democratic nomination.

And Donald Trump fueled characteristic controversy when he retweeted comments that said his poll numbers go up every time an event like a mass shooting occurs.

The first question from the crowd at the Thursday night town hall meeting at the McConnell Center in Dover came from a fourth-grader named Andy, who asked Clinton about what she would do for homeless people. But a string of mass shootings across the nation, punctuated by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012, led President Barack Obama to become a vocal leader on the issue, shortly after his 2012 re-election. “But it is becoming clearer that we are dealing with an act of terrorism”. “No matter what motivation these killers, these murderers had, we can say, one thing for certain: They should not have been able to do this”. 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”.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican candidate for president, said the push for gun control after the attack is “just typical of the political left in America”.

As she has done repeatedly, Clinton blamed Congress for inaction on guns. “I do know we’ve got to start implementing sensible gun safety measures and this seems among the most sensible that I know of”.

“They’re all afraid of the NRA”, Desmond said. “60 percent of voters nationally said she is not, versus 36 percent who said she is”.