Bernie Sanders campaigns in Boulder
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BOULDER – Nine thousand people crammed into CU-Boulder's Potts Field Saturday to hear an hour-long speech from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who touched on topics ranging from gun control to Citizens United to income inequality to immigration.
The 74-year-old independent Vermont senator vowed to implement three months of paid family medical leave and to use an anti-Citizens United litmus test for his Supreme Court nominees during Saturday's campaign event, where a receptive Boulder crowd of an estimated 9,000 largely applauded the self-described "democratic-socialist."
Early in the speech, Sanders, who has taken some criticism for his stance on gun control, said "we have to do something meaningful" on school shootings.
"The American people in large numbers believe that we should improve and expand our background check system," Sanders said, adding that he believes there is "widespread support" to ban semiautomatic assault weapons.
He called them "guns that have no other purpose but to kill people."
