'Enough is enough' — Democratic candidates respond to mass shooting at Gilroy festival
by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Jul 29, 2019
4 minutes
Sunday's mass shooting at the garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., which left four dead - including the suspected gunman and a 6-year-old boy - brought a flurry of condemnation and calls for more gun control from the Democrats running for president in 2020.
Candidates called gun violence an epidemic, a disease; some called out the powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association. The mass shooting that also injured more than a dozen before police killed Santino William Legan, 19, of Gilroy, could make gun control a focus of the Democratic debate being held Tuesday and Wednesday night in Detroit.
Sen. Kamala Harris of
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