Kamala Harris calls for tougher gun control measures during Iowa town hall

Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post Published 6:23 am PST, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to students at Drake University, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. Harris formally announced on Sunday that she was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to students at Drake University, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. Harris formally announced on Sunday that she was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to students at Drake University, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. Harris formally announced on Sunday that she was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to students at Drake University, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. Harris formally announced on Sunday that she was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP Kamala Harris calls for tougher gun control measures during Iowa town hall Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and presidential aspirant, lamented on Monday the lack of congressional action on gun control, saying a solution would have been possible after the 2012 massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, if only lawmakers had been placed in "a locked room, no press, no one, nobody else" and required to examine "the autopsy photographs of those babies." "And then, you vote your conscience," she said at a CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa. "This has become a political issue." Applause rang out as she added, "There is no reason why we cannot have reasonable gun safety laws in this country." The impassioned answer, to a question from a Presbyterian pastor, was a measure of the depths of Democratic outrage over the lack of a

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