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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14-- "I'll tell you, I am the only one who has ever beaten the NRA and they know I can beat them again." Joe Biden pointed his finger at National Rifle Association (NRA), a gun rights advocacy group in the United States, which lobbied for and against firearms legislations over decades. The former U.S. vice president under Barak Obama and now a top-tier Democratic presidential contender paid a quick campaign stop to the Los Angeles Trade Technical College campus in downtown LA on Thursday and pledged to fight with gun violence. Biden was cheered by a group of more than 700 supporters, waving a sea of Biden's signature blue and red campaign signs and chanting, "We want Joe!" The rally was held the same day that yet another fatal school shooting took place earlier that morning that rocked a tranquil Southern California community just a few kilometers away at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, a city of Los Angeles county. Biden has long been an outspoken proponent of gun control, especially for assault weapons and other guns. He said he must begin his speech "on a somber note" to commemorate the shooting. The Saugus shooting left three students critically wounded and two dead. The 16-year old male suspect is a student who is described by a neighbor to local media as "always having a smile on his face." Biden recounted that one of the wounded kids being carried out on a stretcher this morning had been heard to say, "What kind of a world is this ...?" | 
