>>> with my first reads of the morning. politics took a break this weekend as is nation mourned the shooting victims. president obama spent nearly three hours visiting with family members of the victims. the university of colorado hospital followed by remarks to the nation.
>> i come to them not so much as president as i do as a father and as a husband. and i think that the reason stories like this have such an impact on us is because we can all understand what it would be to have somebody that we love taken from us in this fashion.
>> thousands gathered in aurora at a memorial and a prayer vigil where the colorado governor . john hickenlooper read allowed each victim's name.
>> john blunk. a. j. boik. jesse childress.
>> we will remember.
>> a romney fund-raiser in san francisco last night opened with a moment of silence and he offered praise for the president's response to the shooting saying "we are thinking of the people in aurora, colorado and the tragedy that occurred there, this senseless killing there. i know the president will be here before he'll be here with san francisco visiting with the families and victims which is the right thing for the president to to be doing on this day." the suspect has been in. solitary confinement since taken into custody friday morning. he will be arraigned later this morning. police say the gun pan legally purchased the weapons, armor and all of the ammunition he used including 6,000 rounds of ammunition that he bought on the internet. some gun control advocates have tried to reignite the debate calling for the presidential candidates to take a stand on guns. new york mayor michael bloomberg scolded both candidates this morning on " morning joe ."
>> he and governor romney have to tell the public what they're going to do. people say it's bad politics to address the issue. i think they're wrong. i'm going to try to stir it up and so is everybody else. you ask one of the families is this the time to focus on how to keep their other children from getting killed in i think they would be on the side of do it now.
>> members of congress also spoke up. but acknowledged the challenges.
>> pure and simple, weapons of war don't belong on the streets. there has been no action. and there has been no action because there's been no outrage out there. people haven't rallied forward.
>> a lot of politicians know it's the right thing to try to fight for something to save lives. they don't have the spine anymore.
>> white house though sent a clear signal to democrats that anyone believing that they could use this strategy -- tragedy to push for stricter gun laws is pretty much on their own. jay carney directed reporters to an op-ed that the president wrote after the 2011 tucson shooting and told reporters that "the president believes we need to take steps that protect second amendment rights of the american people but that ensure that we are not allowing weapons into the hands of individuals who should not by existing law obtain those weapons." and emphasis was mine. governor hickenlooper played down the importance of the gun control debate on "meet the press."
>> if you look at this person, again, almost a creature, i mean, if he couldn't have gotten access to the guns, what kind of bomb would he have manufactured.
>> james holmes , the suspect in the colorado shooting rampage is expected to make his first appearance in court about two hours from now. this comes as the police chief says emergency first responders averted a second crisis that night at the suspect's apartment.
>> i have been told by the bomb experts that had someone opened that door it would have triggered that device it would have almost certainly killed or injured whoever opened the door and would have started a very big fire that would have been a real challenge for our fire department .
>> i come to them not so much as president as i do as a father and as a husband. and i think that the reason stories like this have such an impact on us is because we can all understand what it would be to have somebody that we love taken from us in this fashion.
>> thousands gathered in aurora at a memorial and a prayer vigil where the colorado governor . john hickenlooper read allowed each victim's name.
>> john blunk. a. j. boik. jesse childress.
>> we will remember.
>> a romney fund-raiser in san francisco last night opened with a moment of silence and he offered praise for the president's response to the shooting saying "we are thinking of the people in aurora, colorado and the tragedy that occurred there, this senseless killing there. i know the president will be here before he'll be here with san francisco visiting with the families and victims which is the right thing for the president to to be doing on this day." the suspect has been in. solitary confinement since taken into custody friday morning. he will be arraigned later this morning. police say the gun pan legally purchased the weapons, armor and all of the ammunition he used including 6,000 rounds of ammunition that he bought on the internet. some gun control advocates have tried to reignite the debate calling for the presidential candidates to take a stand on guns. new york mayor michael bloomberg scolded both candidates this morning on " morning joe ."
>> he and governor romney have to tell the public what they're going to do. people say it's bad politics to address the issue. i think they're wrong. i'm going to try to stir it up and so is everybody else. you ask one of the families is this the time to focus on how to keep their other children from getting killed in i think they would be on the side of do it now.
>> members of congress also spoke up. but acknowledged the challenges.
>> pure and simple, weapons of war don't belong on the streets. there has been no action. and there has been no action because there's been no outrage out there. people haven't rallied forward.
>> a lot of politicians know it's the right thing to try to fight for something to save lives. they don't have the spine anymore.
>> white house though sent a clear signal to democrats that anyone believing that they could use this strategy -- tragedy to push for stricter gun laws is pretty much on their own. jay carney directed reporters to an op-ed that the president wrote after the 2011 tucson shooting and told reporters that "the president believes we need to take steps that protect second amendment rights of the american people but that ensure that we are not allowing weapons into the hands of individuals who should not by existing law obtain those weapons." and emphasis was mine. governor hickenlooper played down the importance of the gun control debate on "meet the press."
>> if you look at this person, again, almost a creature, i mean, if he couldn't have gotten access to the guns, what kind of bomb would he have manufactured.
>> james holmes , the suspect in the colorado shooting rampage is expected to make his first appearance in court about two hours from now. this comes as the police chief says emergency first responders averted a second crisis that night at the suspect's apartment.
>> i have been told by the bomb experts that had someone opened that door it would have triggered that device it would have almost certainly killed or injured whoever opened the door and would have started a very big fire that would have been a real challenge for our fire department .