Hillary Clinton is the only candidate who supports comprehensive gun control.
In January, New York passed the first comprehensive gun legislation in the wake of the killings.
Ms. Speier said the executive action is part of the "most comprehensive gun safety effort in a generation".
"Trump Stuns Lawmakers With Seeming Embrace of Comprehensive Gun Control" read the headline at the New York Times.
On the other issue where the two candidates differ most starkly, gun control, Mrs. Clinton backs comprehensive gun control measures, Mr. Lazio supports some regulations, but not others.
Both bills are important, but neither amounts to the sort of comprehensive gun control that other Western nations enacted years ago.
Both Hillary Clinton and Martin O'Malley have put forward comprehensive gun proposals that are more adventurous than the ideas Obama has embraced.
The proposal is expected to also be part of a comprehensive gun bill that Senate Republicans plan to release later this week.
But within hours, Trump had left lawmakers on Capitol Hill scrambling by backing comprehensive gun control measures long opposed by the National Rifle Association and congressional Republicans.
In the 2014 elections, two governors who passed comprehensive gun control bills – the Connecticut governor, Dan Malloy, and Colorado governor, John Hickenlooper, both Democrats – were re-elected despite the NRA's best efforts to defeat them.
What is needed is gun control — strict, comprehensive gun control that places the values of public safety and security before the values of deer hunting and a perverse ahistorical reading of the Second Amendment.
