Enough. That was the refrain among 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls on Saturday following the news of a mass shooting in El Paso that resulted in at least 20 deaths. Several of the comments were made before a second mass shooting claimed at least nine lives in Dayton early Sunday.
Most of the candidates were gathered in Nevada to address the country's largest public employees union, but the conversation quickly turned to the harrowing events in El Paso. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) put Republican Senate leadership and the National Rifle Association on blast, respectively, for holding up any legislation that would alter gun laws. Former Vice President Joe Biden called America's mass shootings "a sickness," while Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said that, if elected, she would issue an executive order within her first 100 days in office to impose gun control.
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