Pictured is U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, a former Ohio attorney general and the only Black female candidate in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com-DES MOINES, Iowa- U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, one of two Blacks in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president and the only Black female candidate, said at a campaign stop on Saturday that President Donald Trump provided the ammunition for the mass shooting Aug 3 in El Paso, Texas that left 22 people dead and dozens injured.
“People say to me, ‘Did Donald Trump cause those folks to be killed?’ Well, no, of course he didn’t pull the trigger," said Harris at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety in Des Moines, Iowa. "But he’s certainly been tweeting out the ammunition."
Harris also said that the president's racial rhetoric has fueled the race controversy in America, which has been elevated by El Paso's mass shooting, where the gunman used an AK-47- style assault rifle and later admitted to targeting Mexicans, and by last week's mass killing in Dayton, Ohio where nine innocent people were gunned down, that shooter using a semi-automatic weapon.
The federal lawmaker and presidential wannabe said gun control is "literally in the hands of Mitch McConnell."
The Senate Majority Leader, McConnell has stalled on bringing two gun control bills before the Senate for a vote, both measures, H.R. 8, a universal background bill, and H.R. 1112, which would allow the unfettered blocking of gun sales by the federal government, passing in the Democratically control House of Representatives while catching static in the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate.
McConnell said the Senate will tackle gun control legislation when it returns from summer recess in September and not a moment sooner, some 214 members of the House Democratic Caucus shooting off a letter to him last week that demands he call congress back into session immediately, a letter he ignored.
Harris has promised to sign executive orders on gun control that would mandate universal backgrounds checks and close loopholes that allow gun owners to buy guns unchecked.
She said the president has added harm to injury by refusing to embrace versatile initiatives in congress designed to curb gun violence.
NRA leaders are outraged over the proposed gun control legislation pending in congress and over Harris' promise to use executive orders on the matter if she becomes president , the senator, in conjunction with nearly all of the 20 or more Democratic candidates for president, saying congress must pass federal laws that effectively deal with private gun dealers who put guns in the hands of criminals who would fail background checks.
The former California attorney general whom polls show is in fourth place among some 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls, behind former vice president Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, told the audience Saturday that Trump has been using Twitter in the past month in a half to lodge unprovoked verbal attacks on federal lawmakers of color, most of them women.
Specifically, he created a fury by demanding that U.S. Reps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan go home to the countries they came from, all but Omar, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen who came to America with her U.S. born parents as a child refugee, born in the U.S..
A week later he intensified his attacks on the federal lawmakers, saying in a tweet that the four members of the congressional quartet now dubbed 'the quad' are "incapable of loving our country.”
A week after that he went on a rampage against Civil Rights leader the Rev Al Sharpton and seasoned U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, blaming the lawmaker for poverty and disparities against Blacks in housing in the 65 percent Black city of Baltimore, Cummings, in turn, demanding more federal resources for his seventh congressional district
Other Democratic members of congress, 2020 presidential candidates and world leaders have also lashed out at the president for his flagrant attacks on the four congresswomen of color, longtime Congressman John Lewis of Georgia calling Trump racist and an outright embarrassment to the American people.
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