Several 2020 Democratic candidates united to condemn gun violence and call for action after a shooting in El Paso, Texas, left multiple people dead on Saturday. “How many lives must be cut short? How many communities must be torn apart?” former Vice President Joe Biden asked on Twitter. “It’s past time we take action and end our gun violence epidemic.” Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro also expressed their sympathies, with Warren echoing Biden's call for an end to the “gun violence epidemic.” “The news out of El Paso is devastating. I'm heartbroken for the victims and their families,” Warren tweeted. Sanders specifically slighted the Senate, writing that “sadly, after each of these tragedies, the Senate does nothing.”
Last week it was Gilroy. Today it’s El Paso. How can our country tolerate this? My prayers are yet again with families who are grieving and my thanks are with the first responders, but that is not enough. We must act.
Enough. We need to end this national nightmare. Praying for everyone affected by this unspeakable tragedy, and for our country to find the moral courage to take action to end this carnage. https://t.co/vqTMSlbR8j
My heart is with the people of El Paso today as they cope with a devastating mass shooting—the scope of which we are still learning.
This attack is a tragic reminder of our government’s failure to do its most basic duty: to protect American lives. We need gun reform now. https://t.co/z0JTng4kVa
