Sensitivity is something that our country has lacked; we focus so much on policy and laws that we forget about the people and families involved in tragedies.

The most recent was the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history last month in Las Vegas.

At this time people are still grieving and trying to understand why or how this could have happened, while some are jumping straight to the gun control dispute. Now is not the time for debates on gun control; now is the time to let people recover.

Politicians, like Hillary Clinton, took to the internet not 24 hours later to tweet: “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.” She continued,  “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.”

Clinton is referencing the National Rifle Association  pressing to make the federal rules for silencers less strict. Clinton was exploitative in her remarks immediately after the Vegas shooting.

The White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reacted much more appropriately than Clinton did. Sanders said at a press briefing on Monday, “There’s a time and place for a political debate, but now is the time to unite as a country.”

I couldn’t agree more with her. I think that we do need to talk about gun control and that we do need more severe gun laws, but let’s be sensitive to the issue and give this country time to breathe and be united before we tear everyone apart again with another debate.