Kamala Harris Calls for Tougher Gun Control Measures during Iowa Town Hall

Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and presidential aspirant, lamented on Monday the lack of congressional action on gun control, saying a solution would have been possible after the 2012 massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, if only lawmakers had been placed in “a locked room, no press, no one, nobody else” and required to examine “the autopsy photographs of those babies.” “And then, you vote your conscience,” she said at a CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa. “This has become a political issue.” Applause rang out as she added, […]