http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/politics/hillary-clinton-republicans-gun-control/index.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/04/donald-trump-says-shootings-will-happen-no-matter-what/?ref=politics"
What is wrong with us that we can't stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby and the gun manufacturers. This is not just tragic. We don't just need to pray for people, we need to act. We need to build a movement." Hilary Clinton has strongly responded to the Oregon shooting as a way to turn this back to the issue of gun control.
Her words really reminded me about the email read to us in class on Friday about the need for change and how for all the talk on bringing about change, there still is no action being taken. During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press," Donald Trump states, “No matter what you do — guns, no guns, it doesn’t matter — you have people that are mentally ill, and they’re going to come through the cracks, and they’re going to do things that people will not even believe are possible,” and on a separate interview on ABC’s “This Week,” he says, “People say, ‘oh, we’re gonna stop it’ — it doesn’t work that way,’” Mass gun violence in America “has taken place forever, from the beginning, and it’s going to go on a million years from now,” he said. “You’re going to have problems, and even if you have a very tough system, you’re going to have people who slip through the cracks.” As I was reading this article, I couldn't help but wonder what he meant by that; so exactly how many more lives do people like Donald Trump need to see pass away due to gun violence, before they will be willing to admit that there is something wrong with the way things are now on the issue of gun control? I can't help but disagree with Donald Trump in the way he seems to brush off this issue so casually, and in a sense giving up; in that even though we may try to create a strong system, since mass gun violence has went on for "millions of years," then there is no way to try and fix the problem or "fix the cracks" that people are slipping through.
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