Rand Paul on Charleston Shooting: ‘There's A Sickness in Our Country’
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky and 2016 U.S. presidential candidate, speaks during a news conference on the "Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Victims and Survivors Act of 2015" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergKentucky Senator Rand Paul told a crowd of social conservatives that a "sickness" in the country was responsible for the mass shootings in South Carolina, adding that the problem "isn't going to be fixed by your government."
At the opening luncheon of the Faith & Freedom Coalition's annual Washington, D.C. conference, where he shared the stage with two other Republican presidential contenders, Paul went out of his way to address the massacre that left nine people dead in Charleston after a gunman opened fire in a predominantly black church.