Democrats accuse Trump of fueling "white terrorism" after the Ohio and Texas incidents

The echoes of the indiscriminate killings in Texas and Ohio rocked the US political landscape, and Democratic candidates called on the presidency to tighten arms control laws and accused President Trump of fueling ethnic tension.

The United States has been the target of two shootings in 24 hours, killing at least 29 people - and injuring dozens in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.

The first incident took place on Saturday in the El Paso border with Mexico, Texas, home to a large number of Latinos, where a gunman named Patrick Crocius was killed in a shop before surrendering to police. Texas authorities described the incident as racially motivated.

In describing the incident, the police based on a statement issued by Crosius ahead of the operation, in which he stated that his attack was "in response to the Latin invasion of Texas."

In Ohio, a gunman opened fire in a suburb of Dayton on Sunday morning, killing nine people and wounding 26 before being shot dead by police.

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The repercussions of the two incidents were reflected in the upcoming US presidential campaign, and Democratic candidates denounced the high rate of violence with firearms, and several Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential elections held Trump indirectly responsible.

"Donald Trump is responsible for this; he is responsible for fueling fear, hatred and intolerance," Senator Corrie Boker said in a statement to CNN.

Democratic candidate Pito Urwerki went even further when he considered Trump "not only inciting racist rhetoric, but also provoking the violence that follows."

"President Trump is personally inciting racism and white supremacy," said candidate Elizabeth Warren.

"The weakness of the arms market control policies and the rise in domestic terrorism is driven by a white nationalist," said Democratic presidential candidate Pete Boutegege.

President Trump has repeatedly been criticized for his slow denunciation of violence by white nationalists, his statements in which he attacked immigrants coming from the Mexican border, calling them invaders, or recently calling on minority Democratic Party members to "return to their countries."

Human rights organizations point to an unprecedented increase in the number of hate groups and incidents resulting from the Trump presidency.

In his first public comments since the two incidents, President Trump said in a press statement: "There is no place for hatred in our country; we will care about that." He described the perpetrators of the attacks as "sick people", but did not mention directly the country's arms acquisition law.

Despite repeated incidents of random shootings in the United States and hundreds of deaths as a result, weapons possession laws remained a thorny issue in Congress, especially as legislators failed to make substantive changes to the amendment.