Charleston,
South Carolina Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (D) said on Sunday that the lack of
gun control in the United States was "insane."
"It is insane: the number of guns, and the ease of
guns in America. It just doesn't fit with the other achievements of this
country," Riley told CNN's Jake Tapper. "It's a small -- really small group,
well-funded -- that keeps this issue from being appropriately addressed."
Riley's comments came just days
after Dylann Roof, 21, allegedly shot and killed nine people at Emanuel AME
church in Charleston on Wednesday. Roof apparently bought the gun used in the
shooting with money he received for his birthday in April. The church held its
first services since the slaying on Sunday.
Several officials, including President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for
the Democratic presidential nomination, have called for action on gun control
following the massacre.
But many lawmakers have expressed skepticism that
tighter gun control is possible,citing Congress' failure to pass any kind of gun reform after 26 children and school officials
were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut, in 2012.
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