With the country reeling from recent mass shootings, 2020 candidate Castro has called for aggressively combating white supremacy and toughening gun laws.
With the country reeling from recent mass shootings, presidential candidate Julián Castro called for aggressively combating white supremacy and toughening gun laws, including renewing an assault weapons ban, in a policy proposal released Friday.and guns Friday, after 31 people died and dozens more were injured in a domestic terror attack in El Paso, Texas and a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that occurred within 24 hours of each other.
Referring to the shootings in El Paso, Texas, which authorities have deemed domestic terrorism because the shooter targeted Latinos, Castro“White nationalism is on the rise while military-grade firearms are more easily available than ever,” Castro stated. “My wife Erica, an educator, and I are raising a daughter and son who both have brown skin. We worry for them and their friends,” he said. “They should be able to grow up free from fear of hate and safe from gun violence.”
On guns, with first-day-in-office executive orders, Castro said he would end the firearm dealer licensing loophole so dealers would have to have licenses that would require they conduct background checks for all sales.
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