Following a mass shooting in Baltimore that left two people dead and 28 others injured -- among them 15 minors -- the mayor said the focus needs to intensify on illegal guns.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said it's important to focus on how the shooter(s) got access to their weapons and why they opened fire on a group of hundreds of people who were gathering peacefully.
"You're talking about a country where it's easier for a 14-year-old kid to order pieces together, to put a gun together and go out and use it and commit a crime than it is for me to get Claritin D from CVS. That's what we should be talking about every day in this country until those folks take action, because I could stand up her and talk about back-and-forth stuff that they like to do with partisan politics when they say, 'Oh, the violence is happening in Democrat-led cities,' or, 'The guns are coming from Republican-led states.' But who cares? People are dying in Baltimore and the United States, and that's what should matter and that's what we should be acting on every day," Scott said.
On Sunday, the mayor pointed to the number of guns police have seized from the streets, saying: "The Baltimore Police Department has seized 1,345 illegal guns that were in the hands of people that should not have them that had them anyway because they're so easy for them to obtain."... Read More: WBAL TV
