Posted on 10/01/2015 5:36:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
Around 6:20 p.m., President Obama gave remarks to the press on today’s horrific shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. He said there are more American families “whose lives have been changed forever,” and another community stunned with grief. He then went on to say that he’s been to Roseburg, where there are “really good people there.” He went on to thank the first responders, and that in the coming days, we’ll learn about the victims and their dreams they had for their respective futures.
A visibly angry and frustrated president declared, “our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It’s not enough.” It does not capture the heartache or the anger we fell over these senseless acts of violence. And it does not prevent this carnage from happening in the future. The president added that we don’t know the motive of the shooter, but it’s fair to say that they have a “sickness in their minds.”
Watch P_resident 0bama address Oregon shooting
Yet, he cited that we’re not the only country with mental illness, but we are the only developed nation in the world where we have a mass shooting every few months.
“We’ve become numb to this,” Obama said.
He railed against what he feels are lax gun laws, saying that it cannot be this easy for someone who wants to inflict harm on other people to obtain firearms. The president also said that while we have become numb to these events, the reactions could also be anticipated. He challenged the logic of pro-Second Amendment groups by asking them if they truly believe that more guns makes us safer, adding that the press releases from these groups are already being distributed as he speaks.
The president did acknowledge that there are scores of responsible gun owners in this country who don’t believe that’s true. Polling shows that Americans, including gun owners; want to change the gun laws. Obama also said that states with the most gun laws have the fewer gun deaths.
He went on to say that we know nations that have had one mass shooting, and ended up crafting laws that have eliminated such horrific events; Obama used the United Kingdom and Australia as examples, calling them “countries like ours.”
Obama acknowledged that some in the media will say he shouldn’t politicize this tragedy, but added that gun control is “is something we should politicize.” He then made a plea to new organizations to compare the deaths of Americans from gun violence to that of terrorism in the coming days.
Congress was also the subject of Obama’s frustration saying that the current session explicitly blocks the collection of data that could lead to information that prevents more gun deaths. He also blamed the general public saying, “This is a political choice that we make. To allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction.”
Towards the end of the president’s remarks, he said when natural disasters strike, we work to make communities safer; we have seatbelt laws because we know they prevent automobile fatalities; and we fix roads to also prevent road deaths and make transportation easier. He was getting to the common sense element with these actions, but added that the notion that gun violence is somehow different–that out freedom and our Constitution prevents us from enacting laws that enhance gun safety–doesn’t make sense.
Obama admitted that this issue would require a change of politics, and that Americans who think gun violence is an epidemic should be thinking how to change the politics in Washington on this issue.
He made a call to gun owners to think about whether their opinions and views are being properly represented by the organizations who claim to speak for them on the national stage. Obama did not mention the National Rifle Association, but we all knew what he meant by this statement.
Before leaving, he said that he couldn’t do this on his own. He will need a cooperative Congress, governors, and state legislatures who are willing to work with him. He prayed–and hoped–that he wouldn’t have to come out here to express his condolences to the families of the victims of mass shootings–and give the same call to arms for more gun control–again during his presidency. But Obama admitted he couldn’t guarantee that.
Updates to follow with the president’s full remarks soon
Excuse me but my bull$hit monitor just went off. Everything I've seen indicates that the most gun deaths occur in those areas where gun laws are the most strictly enforced. A liar just doing what a Taqiyyar does best.
compared to your personal army (ISIL), #BLM, and your political assassination squads the rest of the U.S. has a very low gun death rate. Of course with ISIL you have to correlate the schimitar beheadings to the gun deaths since different weapons are used but both result in death.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh dear leader?
And it’s very telling that he’s cheering Australia’s and the UK’s complete dump on due process as the “solution”.
Kas,
They need to get their cover story straight. The guy’s driver’s license would have had his age.
The town’s population doesn’t match the attendance at the comm college as a proportion.
If the guy was from the Midwest and traveled to Seattle, WHERE DID HE GET THE GUNS? He couldn’t have planed/deplaned with them.
This is Sandy Hook, college style. OBAMA NEEDED TO GET UP ON HIS HIGH HORSE AND FEIGN OUTRAGE.
Obama promised EOs in November about guns. Voila. What better pretext?
The TPP countries do not permit private ownership of guns. Obama had signed the UN Small Arms treaty, and he’s announced his UN/Global police force-the UN being Sharia compliant.
Obama’s not bringing in ‘Syrian refugees.’ He’s bringing in soldiers.
ping
Muslim Homo Socialists tend to suck.
Every time one of these shootings occurs, this gal wants to buy guns, not ban them. Obama’s war on women continues by waging war on our equalizer.
He is so blinded by this extremist views that he can’t or won’t understand facts.
Bill O’Reilly Goes Off Script to Send Strong 15-Word Message to Obama After His Call for Gun Control
O’Reilly’s passionate message came moments after Obama called for increased gun control measures following the mass shooting that left 10 dead, including the shooter, at an Oregon community college.
“I don’t have a script here. I am just talking to President Obama right now,” O’Reilly said at the outset of his message.
Video in the link
Greta Van Susteren was talking to him last night via phone
Do you really think they would face doing this? You are out of your mind and I have to disappoint you if you think that I will vote third party. It will never happen.
It time the facts be made painfully clear to the Leftist hysterics.
These mass shootings happen in their precious “gun free” zones.
Crazies bent on mass murder do not go to places where people can shoot back.
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