I believe in giving credit where credit is due. I’ve been waiting for this, and was not disappointed.
"I believe that in this country, we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people," Sanders said, according to an emailed statement from NBC. "We have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them, criminals, people who are mentally ill."
The Vermont senator called the shooting "horrific" and "unthinkable," adding that he believes there to exist "a very broad consensus in this country" between most, but not all, gun owners who believe "we have got to do everything that we can to prevent guns from falling into the hands of people who should not have them. That means expanding the instant background checks, it means doing away with the gun show loophole, it means addressing the straw man provision."
Props to Sanders for taking such a firm position.
(The tag system doesn’t seem to work in Firefox, so I’ll have to do without.)