Democratic candidates blast Trump for speech blaming shootings on all but guns
by Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times
Aug 05, 2019
3 minutes
Democratic presidential candidates were quick to call out President Donald Trump on Monday for not mentioning the roles high-powered guns played in massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, for putting blame on mental illness and for misstating the name of the Ohio city hit by the tragedy.
"In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy," Trump said during his short speech from the White House. "These sinister ideologies must be defeated."
Trump said the country needed to stop what he called society's glorification of violence, change mental
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