'America is under attack': Dem candidates call for gun control after shootings

shootings that killed 20 other folks at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, and nine other people in Dayton, Ohio, in the early hours of Sunday morning brought speedy reactions from the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates on the campaign trail.

© Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks through the 2020 Public Service Discussion Board hosted via the yank Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) at UNLV on Aug. THREE, 2019 in Las Vegas.

Calls For a length of mirrored image ahead of discussing politics, a well-recognized chorus for years in the wake of mass shootings, ceded to requires increased gun keep watch over prior to all of the main points of the assaults were known.

(EXTRA: Mass shooting leaves no less than 20 lifeless, dozens injured in El Paso, police say)

Sunday

"El Paso is a group that presentations up for each other—on our best days and our worst," former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who calls El Paso home, tweeted Sunday. "I met Rosemary's family on the aircraft again to El Paso. They requested that we discuss with her and percentage her tale. She was shot within the chest however is doing well after surgical operation. She's strong—identical to our city."

O'Rourke cancelled an look at California's San Quentin State Prison and returned to El Paso Saturday evening, the place he visited College Medical Center.

"It Is extremely heartbreaking to see what these families are going through at this time," the Texan mentioned on a Sunday appearance on ABC Information' "This Week."

(MORE: 2020 applicants Castro, O'Rourke, each from Texas, slam Trump over mass shootings)

O'Rourke in front of reporters Sunday also referred to as for regulations that make it harder for people to get a gun who he said "cannot have one within the first position," together with common heritage assessments, closing the entire loopholes and finishing the gross sales of assault guns and weapons of conflict.

"We also have to recognize that that the open racism and intolerance and hatred that we're seeing during this usa Being being echoed and trafficked in by means of the President of the Usa who encourages this sort of hatred," he said.

Former Housing And Concrete Building Secretary Julián Castro, additionally of Texas, in a similar way known as out President Donald Trump in a "This Week" look Sunday, announcing that "division and bigotry and fanning the flames of hate has been Trump's political strategy."

(EXTRA: 2-yr-vintage survived El Paso capturing after mom used body as protect, Texas Rep. says)

In a press release Sunday after each shootings, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan mentioned, "I'm calling in Congress to immediately finish its August recess and reconvene in Washington to take up a package deal of regulation meant to stop those acts of horror and other acts of gun violence that impact each American."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted, "We're waking as much as the second mass capturing in as many days. I Am heartsick for the 29 folks killed this weekend in El Paso and Dayton—and all the other lives we lose on a daily basis because of mindless gun violence. we need to take pressing motion to end the gun violence epidemic."

Sen. Kamala Harris also took to Twitter Sunday morning, announcing, "we cannot stay idle and make allowance this stage of carnage to ravage our communities. we need braveness. we'd like to behave."

Saturday

© Ethan Miller/Getty Images Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks through the 2020 Public Service Discussion Board hosted by the yank Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers (AFSCME) at UNLV on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019 in Las Vegas.

On Saturday, a lot of the 2020 presidential candidates -- 19 of 24 -- had been in Las Vegas for the AFSCME Convention as news of the El Paso capturing began to spread in the media.

"we are in this unimaginably just distraught second in this united states of america, the place we seem to be nearly accepting this idea that these are going to be a typical incidence," Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., instructed journalists a the AFSCME forum. "And so i have had sufficient of this, particularly living in a neighborhood the place gunshots are all too common."

"We need to on this election, we need to have leaders are willing to face up and say, i'm not going to permit this factor be be decided via what the interests of the company gun lobby are," he brought.

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Ny Mayor Bill de Blasio hinted at the same reluctance of conservative politicians to face up to the gun foyer, and the face of gun rights, the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation.

"Countless tragedies all since the gun lobby has positive 'leaders' extra fearful of losing reinforce than dropping family members," he stated Saturday on Twitter. "Sufficient empty phrases. These families deserve action."

(EXTRA: A routine summer time Saturday in El Paso shattered by means of a massacre)

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg centered his comments at the discussion board on gun keep watch over and the growing threat of white nationalism. The suspect in the El Paso taking pictures expressed a desire to kill as many Mexicans as imaginable after being arrested, regulation enforcement officers informed ABC News.

"The Us is under assault from homegrown white nationalist terrorism," Buttigieg stated. "And we need to talk and act approximately two issues on this u . s . a .. First of all, we're the one united states in the world with extra weapons than we now have other folks. we will be able to respect the second one Amendment and never permit it to be a dying sentence for heaps of americans, and two, white nationalism is evil."

© Ethan Miller/Getty Photographs Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks in the course of the 2020 Public Service Discussion Board hosted by the yankee Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers (AFSCME) on Saturday, Aug. THREE, 2019 in Las Vegas.

Several applicants had been important of Trump for not doing extra to create actual gun reform within the U.S.

"Well, his responsibility is to do what the yank individuals are would really like him to do, and that may be to give a boost to the common sense gun safety legislation, that the overpowering majority the american other people make stronger," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said. "That Isn't exhausting."

Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney said "a lot can be performed via government action" in response to expanding gun protections.

Joe Biden, one in all the president's most persistent objectives of complaint, mentioned he'd reached out to O'Rourke in regards to the taking pictures and challenged the NRA's honesty.

"People, even the NRA individuals know higher," Biden stated past due Friday, before the shootings. "Even the NRA members know we need universal history assessments, the bulk of them."

"this is not only approximately what coverage works higher," Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., stated. "this is a couple of energy of an outdoor staff, and people who're too afraid to act. And it's not only about mass shootings, it is approximately every single day in The Usa, in neighborhoods across the united states of america."

© Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks through the 2020 Public Service Discussion Board hosted through the yank Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) at UNLV on Aug. THREE, 2019 in Las Vegas.

"My heart goes out to the households and people impacted by way of the El Paso taking pictures," Andrew Yang wrote on Twitter on Saturday. "We owe them and all American Citizens commonsense gun safety rules. Different societies reply to senseless tragedies -- we will have to do the similar. we're better than this."

"we have not been able to positioned an finish to those bad shootings," said John Hickenlooper, who used to be governor of Colorado throughout the mass taking pictures at a film theater in Aurora. "this should make every American livid."

"we can get started with requiring universal heritage checks and licensing and proscribing high-capability magazines," he persevered. "no one should be cowed by the NRA ever once more."

(MORE: a minimum of 9 dead, 26 injured in mass shooting in downtown Dayton; suspect known)

Trump spoke back to the tragedies by means of Twitter, saying Saturday, "Modern capturing in El Paso, Texas, was once not just tragic, it was once an act of cowardice. i do know that I stand with everybody on this U . S . A . to sentence today's hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses to be able to ever justify killing blameless other people."

"God bless the folks of El Paso Texas. God bless the folks of Dayton, Ohio," Trump delivered on Twitter on Sunday.

ABC News' Jeff Cook Dinner, Zohreen Shah, Sasha Pezenik, Molly Nagle, Cheyenne Haslett, Matthew Vann and Alexandra Svokos contributed to this record.

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