lets hear the man talk.
Has anyone told him of this, and asked his opinion?
BTW, there's an interesting aspect of this to consider.
As an NRA member and supporter of the RKBA and 2A, I view crimes committed by deranged individuals in America using firearms as just that -- deranged individuals who happened to use firearms. I do not accept the "culture of gun violence" argument that says that availability and acceptance of guns contributes to their illegal misuse by lunatics. There is no "religion of guns" here.
We must be just as careful to view crimes committed by deranged individuals with knives in Islamic countries properly -- the individuals are clearly lunatics. So to what degree does their religion and "culture of knife violence" contribute to their insane, illegal behavior?
Personally I believe that because Islam encourages violence and intolerance, it must accept the responsibility for the actions of those deranged individuals who act in accordance with the Islamic writings. But we also must be careful about deranged individuals who read the gorier passages of the Old Testament and believe that such violence is justified there. Our own culture has seen much bloodshed over religion, mostly in the past.
But the Muslim religious culture continues to set new records for insane, intolerant, murderous behavior every day.
So to the point: Obama must speak to this BOTH as the action of a deranged individual, AND as the product of a deranged, violent religious culture.