Hillary and Obama on the latest mass shootings over the last 2 days?

[bushmeister0]

Is there anything from either of them on this? You'd think after these last two bloody days one of the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination would address the fact that three police officers and at least ten other people have been brutally gunned down.

All I could get out of Hillary was a statement about the shooting at Louisiana Technical College buried deep within all the news about fundraisers and such.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=5841

Nothing on the shootings in LA that killed three people and a SWAT officer, the mass shooting in Kirkwood, Mo., or the shooting/stabbing in Portsmouth, OH., where the estranged husband of a fifth grade teacher stabbed her in front of her class before killing himself in his garage.

I tried to get to Obama website to check out his press releases but you have to sign up first and I've already got enough spam in my email, so I wasn't able to enter.

At On The Issues I found these policy positions from both of them on gun control:

Obama:

"Q: When you were in the state senate, you talked about licensing and registering gun owners. Would you do that as president?

A: I don't think that we can get that done. But what we can do is to provide just some common-sense enforcement."

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm

Sounds eerily like the NRA position on Gun Control, no?

And Hillary?

"Hillary Rodham Clinton offered her support for a legislative proposal to license hand guns. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer, would require anyone who wants to purchase a gun to obtain a state-issued photo gun license. 'I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun,' Clinton said. 'I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry, such as Chuck is proposing.'"

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Hillary_Clinton_Gun_Control.htm

Of course, that was from a CNN report back in 2000. I defy you to find one word on Gun Control since, at least, the Virginia Tech killings last year.

So, what are we supposed to do, just keep our mouths shut about the fact that neither of our illustrious candidates is courageous enough to mention that maybe this country might be a little gun crazy, that perhaps we might want to do something about curtailing the daily slaughter that goes on in our streets, schools and shopping malls?

Lets just keep going out there and rolling the dice and hope some mental patient didn't just go down to the local gun shop and buy himself a Glock to let off a little steam at some random targets, like me or you, or your kids.

We'll do anything to get into the White House, right?

[fightthegoodfightnow]

1. Agree with You

Get ready for the gun industry to respond.

Thanks for the link on Obama's positions

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm

[enfield collector]

2. gun control doesn't work, if you look carefully the most

recent spate of shootings have been in "gun free zones". Criminals don't obey stupid feel good laws and the gun genie is out of the bottle. About the only solution is to put more guns in the hands of the law abiding so they can protect themselves, there are never going to be enough police around to protect us and quite frankly I wouldn't want to live in a world that there were.

[bushmeister0]

4. Um . . . didn't the three cops that got shot all have guns?

[Wombatzu]

3. i bet they are against mass shootings...

and if not, they should be!

[Kat45]

5. The less said, the better.

It is better if gun control is not an issue in the campaign, because it is one issue that causes Democrats to lose a lot of votes.

[anigbrowl]

6. Most likely the reason

that both campaigns have been silent about it in public is because they don't want to be accused of using a tragedy to gain votes. If I were running for office I'd feel it was more appropriate to send a private message of condolence.