Orlando shooting survivor: Trump, Clinton should address gun violence in debate

A survivor of the Orlando nightclub shooting is putting pressure on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to address the issue of gun violence in America during Sunday’s presidential debate.

{mosads}In a new campaign video released Thursday by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Angel Colon urges the debate moderators to ask both candidates “what they would do as president to keep guns out of hands of dangerous people.”

“In June, I was shot multiple times at Pulse Night Club in Orlando by a man who should have never had a gun,” Colon says in the ad. “It was a tragic day for my city and for our country.”

The Orlando attack was the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Forty-nine people were killed, and another 53 were injured.

Clinton responded to the attack on the gay nightclub by calling for stronger background checks, a consistent campaign theme for the Democratic presidential nominee.

But Trump said the shooting, which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took credit for, could have been prevented by strengthening the nation’s immigration laws. The shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, was born in New York to Afghan parents. He pledged allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call made during the shooting, though the CIA said it’s found no links between the terrorist group and the shooter.

“Hillary Clinton says the solution is to ban guns,” Trump said in a speech shortly after the Orlando shooting.

“They tried that in France, which has among the toughest gun laws in the world, and 130 were brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists in cold blood. Her plan is to disarm law-abiding Americans, abolishing the Second Amendment, and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. She wants to take away Americans’ guns, then admit the very people who want to slaughter us.”