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President Barack Obama's address on last week's deadly shootings in California comes as two potent issues merge and overlap: international terrorism and gun control. Islamic State-inspired carnage on U.S. soil is a concept many Americans find unnerving. "It's really scary because ISIS has bombs and everything," said April, a California resident, using another acronym for the Islamic State. "And bombs could take out a whole city." "I mean, when the Paris thing happened, we heard on the news that obviously we (the United States) were targeted too," said another Californian, Erika. From the halls of Congress to the presidential campaign trail, the coming week is likely to bring many recommendations on what America must do to keep its citizens safe. "We have a hidden enemy," said businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "We've got an enemy that doesn't wear uniforms. An enemy that's very vicious, very violent, very sick. And we've got to take them out." General agreement, but rifts on approach Taking the fight to Islamic State is a rare point of bipartisan agreement. "They have to be defeated," said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. "And that means taking them on in the air, taking them on on the ground, and taking them on in cyberspace." Even so, ideas about what to do expose deep partisan rifts. | 
