Trump, Dems target guns while taking aim at terror

Published June 19, 2016 9:54pm ET



If you’re serious about fighting terrorism, you should at the very least want to keep guns out of the hands of people on various terror watch lists. So say leading Democrats. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump agrees.

The latest renewed gun control push comes after the Orlando shootings that left 49 patrons of a gay nightclub dead and 53 others wounded. A recent Gallup poll found that the American public is sharply divided over whether the incident was primarily an act of Islamic terrorism (48 percent) or domestic gun violence (41 percent), with 6 percent saying both equally.

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