President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed profound “sadness and anger” at the Charleston church shooting as well as deeply personal frustration that America’s political climate makes it virtually impossible for now to tighten restrictions on who can buy firearms.
“We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun,” Obama said in the White House briefing room, Vice President Joe Biden standing at his side.
“It is in our power to do something about it. I say that recognizing the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now,” the president said. “But it’d be wrong for us not to acknowledge it, and at some point, it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively.”
Throughout Obama’s remarks, Biden stood grim-faced, his hands clasped in front of him, fingers laced, with an a expression of grief on his face. The vice president, whose elder son died of cancer earlier this month, looked worn.
It was Obama’s 14th statement on a mass shooting since taking office, according to CBS News’s Mark Knoller, the closest thing to a presidential records keeper in the White House press corps.
“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times,” Obama said Thursday.
“Now is the time for mourning and for healing. But let’s be clear. At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency,” he said.
The president had previously called the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut “the worst day of my presidency” and the failure of lawmakers in the aftermath to adopt a modest package of restrictions on guns “probably the most disappointing moment I’ve had with Congress.”
But his remarks on Thursday suggested that he has become resigned to the political reality that legislative action is not possible, for now, in the face of opposition from Republicans who hold both houses of Congress as well as from some Democrats.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/obama-on-charleston-its-too-easy-to-get-guns-in-121848101296.html
innocent people were killed because they aint paying attention..
1 white dude in a black church and no one thought to watch him?( if this story is even true )
and not one person in that church armed,, now thats a problem that can be solved , this isnt hard people .. the stupid it burns
oh and lets not forget the TPP got passed right under our noses while this little bread and circus was playing out.. so how concerned was Mr Obama about this event? not 1 F-ing bit .. he got his
F#$K THIS N@GG#R BASTARD
DITTO!
“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times,” Obama said Thursday.
Ya, too many times since your administration helped this come to frutitation. I wonder who is bankrolling this crap, soros, big pharma, or the rogue faction executive? One things for sure, they never let a tragedy created or not, go to waste. Do communists create anything besides crisis, and mass murder?
Yep
Hillary is already all over this
From the Yahoo article, Barry’s own words:
“At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency,” he said.”
BAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!! ROLMFAO!!!
Apparently, he thinks his home country in Kenya and his pals in China and North Korea don’t kill people with guns for sport on a daily basis. Of course he uses the key word, “Advanced countries”. Tell me, what other country is more advanced than the US? Is the US even an advanced country anymore since we have no jobs or industry?
Can I just have one chance to punch this SOB in the face real hard? I can’t stand hearing the shit that comes out of his mouth anymore.
“Obama on Charleston: It’s too easy to get guns in America”
Sure it is. That’s why it’s called the 2nd Article to the Bill of Rights, you treasonous pig!
My sentiments exactly…..
He’s right.
It’s WAY too easy for the ICM enforcers to get them.
Same old song and dance. They really want our guns bad. Wonder why that is…