Gun violence kills 100 people each day, and gun control was a hot topic at tonight's DemDebate
have meaningfully touched on: The epidemic of gun violence in America, and congressional inaction to enact meaningful legislation to protect people from both mass violence, and everyday trauma.
CBS News moderator Gayle King opened the segment noting that the debate theater was"across the street" from Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where, in 2015, a white supremacist killed nine Black people. She then broadened the conversation to highlight how gun violence kills 100 people each day, and that the government has largely failed to pass meaningful gun violence even in the light of other mass shootings.
"One hundred and fifty million people have been killed since 2007 when [Senator Bernie Sanders] voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability,” former vice president Joe Biden said, ostensibly referring to Sanders'son the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a vote which the Vermont senator has since disavowed. “More than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on. Carnage on our streets.
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