Bloomberg, House Dems call for stricter gun control [View all]
Source: MSNBC
New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, as well as several House Democrats, are seizing on Friday’s school shooting in Newtown, Conn. to make the case for stricter gun control.
“President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown,” Bloomberg, a frequent advocate of stricter gun laws, said in a statement after the shooting, which killed 27 people, 20 of them children. “But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action.”
The New York City mayor’s office tweeted: “For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds.”
At the White House Friday, Obama called for “meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.” His spokesman, Jay Carney, had earlier said “today’s not the day” for a discussion of gun control.
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