Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday placed responsibility for inaction on gun violence in the hands of President
Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, in the face of broad national support for some
gun control measures. "If most Americans insist that something be done and it doesn't happen, it means we need fundamental reform," Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said at a presidential forum on gun violence in downtown Des Moines. The forum comes a week after a pair of mass shootings in El Paso,
Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, shook the nation and reignited a debate surrounding gun rights in America.