Obama says fight for gun laws 'ought to obsess us'

[GeneCC]

Reprising his role of the nation's consoler in chief after yet another mass shooting, Obama issued a call to action on gun control measures that failed to pass earlier this year and show no new momentum in the wake of last week's rampage at a military installation just blocks from the Capitol.

"Our tears are not enough," Obama told thousands gathered to mourn at the Marine Barracks. "Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change."

Obama said when such senseless deaths strike in America, "it ought to be a shock to all of us, it ought to obsess us. It ought to lead to some sort of transformation."

But, Obama said, "nothing happens. Alongside the anguish of these American families, alongside the accumulated outrage so many of us feel, sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this. As Americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work."

He said no other advanced nation endures the kind of gun violence seen in the United States, and blamed mass shootings in America on laws that fail "to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people."

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[lakota]

Obama needs to go to Institute of Medicine (IOM) website and read the report "Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence" that he commission back in January. But then again he probably knows it doesn't support his nonsense. So we have to keep it quite.

I don't know about anyone else, but I as a law abiding individual I am tired of being included with the bad guys.

[Gunowner99]

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CL

That's good!

[Boots_DE]

I knew he was obsessed.

[Yellowfin]

Can we please kick him out of office already? Have we not had enough of his self centered crap and telling us how we should be thinking? He either needs to learn to be part of the country he's supposed to represent and stop trying to "transform" it or GTFO.

[vinividivici]

This is so typical of the rat eared bastard. Dancing on the coffins of the fallen to make a political statement. This was supposed to be a memorial service, not a campaign stop. A disgusting excuse for a human being.

[ShooterInPA1]

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CL

A little boy says to his mother, “Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?”

His mother replied, “Barack, don’t even go there! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!”

[wanneroo]

He is a demagogue and expect him to keep playing that role until the end.

[imashooter2]

I am obsessed with the fight for gun control. Most of my friends and associates are too. Of course, we are on the side of the fight opposite the president...