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Hillary Clinton uses San Bernardino Shooting to Push Gun Control Agenda

<p>&ldquo&semi;I refuse to accept this as normal&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Hillary Clinton of the mayhem that occurred Wednesday when two gunmen opened fire at a party in San Bernardino&comma; California&period; &ldquo&semi;We must take action to stop gun violence now&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;Around 11&colon;00am Wednesday&comma; two heavily-armed gunmen dressed in tactical attire opened fire at a social-services center in San Bernardino&period; The gunmen&comma; later identified as 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik and 28-year-old Syed Rizwan&comma; managed to kill 14 and injure 21 before leaving the scene&period; A car chase ensued and the two suspects were shot and killed by police&period;&nbsp&semi;While Presdient Obama mentioned the culprits might have been terrorists&comma; we don&rsquo&semi;t know for sure&period; Police continue searching for answers regarding the mysterious attack&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not surprisingly&comma; Hillary Clinton and other Dems wasted no time using this tragedy to push their gun control agenda&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;We don&rsquo&semi;t know the reason or motive yet behind what happened in San Bernardino yesterday in California&period; But I just was told before coming in that the president says we can&rsquo&semi;t rule out terrorism&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Hillary during a recent campaign visit to a New Hampshire factory&period; &nbsp&semi;&lpar;Let&&num;8217&semi;s see&period; &nbsp&semi;Middle East couple with heavy weapons and pipe bombs&quest; Duh&&num;8230&semi;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;We do have to take this seriously&comma; and we have to get the rest of the world to join with us&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Hillary continued&period; &&num;8220&semi;Look&comma; we&rsquo&semi;re always going to have differences&period; We&rsquo&semi;re Americans&comma; that&rsquo&semi;s part of who we are&period; But there&rsquo&semi;s got to be a way to end some of the hot rhetoric and the negative attitudes that people are spewing forth&period; Because whether it&rsquo&semi;s an election or whether it&rsquo&semi;s a news program or whatever might be going on&comma; we should roll up our sleeves and work together and solve our problems&period; And so I want to do everything I can to find common ground to bring people together&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not surprisingly&comma; Bernie Sanders jumped on the bandwagon with a message on Twitter just hours after the shooting&period; Not only did he call for increased gun control&comma; but he also took the opportunity to insult the NRA&colon;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;Horrifying news out of &num;SanBernardino&period; Enough is enough&colon; it&rsquo&semi;s time to stand up to the &commat;NRA and enact meaningful gun safety laws&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Democrats look for someone to blame&comma; GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina stepped up to criticize Obama and Clinton for politicizing the tragedy&colon; &ldquo&semi;Without knowing any of the facts of what has happened there or why&comma; President Obama and Hillary Clinton immediately came out and made a political statement for gun control&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Fiorina&period; &ldquo&semi;Instead of Mrs&period; Clinton calling for more laws&comma; why don&rsquo&semi;t we enforce the laws that we have and&comma; as well&comma; enforce the Second Amendment&quest;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fiorina makes a good point&period; The state of California already has some of the tightest gun control laws in the country&period; And still&comma; Democrats are pushing Congress to pass more restrictions&comma; frequently throwing the term &ldquo&semi;terrorist&rdquo&semi; around to describe US-born gunmen who commit mass shootings&period;&nbsp&semi;The liberal group <em>Democracy for America<&sol;em> even went so far as to accuse House Speaker Paul Ryan of &ldquo&semi;aiding and abetting those terrorists&rdquo&semi; by failing to pass more laws restricting access to firearms&period; &nbsp&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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