Now not time for policy debate on gun control: White House
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E-mail Xinhua, October 3, 2017
The White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said on Monday that "there will be a time for policy debate" on gun control, but now is not the time.
"Today is a day for consoling the survivors, and mourning those we lost ... there's a time and place for a political debate, but now is the time to unite as a country," Sanders said during a press briefing.
"I think that there will be, certainly, time for that policy discussion to take place, but that's not the place that we're in at this moment," she added.
Sanders said U.S. President Donald Trump learned about the incident early Monday and law enforcement officials were still at a fact finding period to gather all evidence.
The White House observed a moment of silence Monday afternoon to remember those killed or wounded during the mass shooting.
Trump said in a televised speech earlier Monday that the mass shooting had been an "act of pure evil", and ordered "flag be flown at half-staff."
At least 58 people were killed and an estimated 515 people were transported to hospitals in a mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas in the U.S. state of Nevada, police said on Monday.
The death toll made the mass shooting outside of the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip the deadliest in modern U.S. history.
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