In his first verbal response to the killings, which left about 30 people dead, President Trump said that “hate has no place” in the U.S.
-- Two mass shootings within 24 hours put the nation’s focus back onto gun control and, given the alleged anti-immigrant views of a shooter in Texas, elevate the issue of the dangers of hate speech.
“Hate has no place in our country and we’re going to take care of it,” Trump told reporters in New Jersey as he boarded Air Force One after spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster. Of gun violence, he said, “this has been going on for years.” Less than 24 hours after the El Paso shooting, a gunman in body armor and armed with at least 100 rounds of ammunition killed nine people and injured dozens of others in a popular nightlife district of Dayton, Ohio, police there said. The suspect, who was killed, was identified Sunday a man in his 20s, Connor Betts of the nearby town of Bellbrook, Ohio. No motive was publicly identified.
In a series of tweets, Trump called the El Paso killings “an act of cowardice,” saying there are “no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people.” The White House ordered flags flown at half staff on U.S. public buildings and military posts for five days. “That type of toxicity has now permeated the whole country to where some jackass in Texas drives 10 hours to go shoot Mexicans,” Ryan said.
It was a multi-day Twitter attack by Trump on Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat from Maryland, that prompted the leaders at the National Cathedral, which has been the site of four presidential funerals, to post the essay, “Have We No Decency? A Response to President Trump,” on July 30.
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