Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren are calling for national action on stricter gun control legislation, one day after a shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College in rural Oregon that left nine people dead and 7 wounded.
Warren said, "We cannot continue with one mindless shooting after another. People are dying and it's time for the majority of this country to push back against the NRA."
Markey said, "Without background checks, without any ability to know who is purchasing these guns, it can happen anywhere.
It is the latest mass shooting in the United States where President Obama immediately expressed anguish and frustration over Congressional inaction saying, "It can't be this easy to someone who wants to inflict pain, to get a gun."
Even as Republicans dig in their heels over even holding votes on curbing gun.
In Boston for a fundraising event, US Senator and Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz says he's proud to have lea the opposition in the Senate to defeat stricter gun laws.
Cruz said, "What caused this was a sick, deranged person and we have to focus our law enforcement efforts on criminals."
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Democrats say they will continue to push.
But it's hard to imagine that the Oregon shooting will provide any movement in Congress given that legislation failed - months after the December 2012 massacre at an elementary school in Newton Connecticut that killed 26 students and educators.
Given that new gun legislation was not successful in Congress after the Newton massacre and with a Republicans in control, does Warren think something will happen now?
Warren said, "What I can honestly say is we have to keep fighting back. If we just fold up and say, well you know nothing can ever happen, then they truly have won and more to the point, our children are at real risk."
