#Enough campaign gaining momentum on social media in wake of Orlando terror
Social media users are using #enough to express outrage against gun laws in the United States in the wake of a deadly attack at a nightclub in the state of Florida.
US citizens and rights groups have long been calling for a reform in the country’s gun laws given the number of mass shootings in the US history.
Early on Sunday, a gunman, wielding an assault rifle and a handgun, attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and injuring 53 others.
Many of the victims’ family members and US politicians, including lawmakers and presidential hopefuls, have called for stricter gun safety laws.
"You've seen it in universities, all over the place, anyone can turn up with guns and shoot senselessly," said the brother of one of Orlando massacre victims.
The attack has led to further pressure on pro-gun institutions and politicians, mainly Republicans and the National Rifle Association gun lobby.
Democrat lawmakers of the US Congress stalled Senate proceedings on Wednesday in an effort to push for a tougher gun control legislation.
“Nobody wants terrorists to have firearms," Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell admitted Tuesday. "I do not believe this was some random act of violence. It seems clear this was cold-blooded murder committed by a terrorist who picked his targets with deliberate malice."
Semi-automatic assault weapons, such as the SIG Sauer MCX used in Orlando, were banned in 1994 but the prohibition expired 10 years later and not renewed by the lawmakers.
GOPers argue that American citizens have the right to keep and bear arms to defend themselves based on the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein called on US authorities on Tuesday to adopt “robust gun control measures.”
On Wednesday, US Vice President Joe Biden also slammed lack of "rational gun safety" laws in the country.
Speaking at a fundraiser for an organization called Sandy Hook Promise Champions, Biden said not much has changed in the country three years after a mass shooting in the elementary school.
On December 14, 2012, twenty children and six adults were fatally shot by Adam Lanza, the gunman who later killed himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the town of Newtown in the US state of Connecticut.
"You'd think by now we'd be in a different place," he said.
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