Gun violence vs terrorism: how the numbers in USA stack up

“Unless we change that political dynamic, we’re not going to be able to make a big dent in this problem”, he said asking gun-control advocates to act as “single-issue voters”, punishing and rewarding politicians at the polls on the topic.

There hasn’t been a major congressional debate to change laws since 2012, the same year when 20 innocent children and 6 adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Obama embarrassed for his country?

A British mapping software company has illustrated the scale of America’s gun problem – with a map that displays all 264 mass shootings that have occurred in America this year.

But President Barack Obama says this should be a call to action to pass stronger laws. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. “We have become numb to this”, he complained on Thursday.

Nodding to the arguments that such shootings are often committed by the mentally ill, Obama said it was clear that anyone who commits such crimes had a “sickness in their minds”. He said that states should take the lead in such efforts. “But the kind of crime that’s probably most hard to prevent are these extreme, but rare cases”. Obama, however, said it did not make sense to argue that the Constitution prevented sensible reforms.

“He had multiple guns that weren’t assault weapons and he went through background checks multiple times to buy the firearms”.

Observers and lawmakers see the NRA as one of the top three most influential lobbying groups in Washington. He called on gun owners “to think about whether your views are being properly represented by the organization that suggests it’s speaking for you”.

Moffett said most of his officers have a military background.

Clinton said after a Dorchester, Massachusetts, campaign event that the nation needs to “get the political will to do everything we can to keep people safe”.

“There are way too many guns out there that are not registered and I think people can get guns right now anywhere they want“.

“If he identifies (a remedy)”, the governor said, according to MPR, “then he ought to advance that as a national solution”.

Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush had earlier been criticised for saying “stuff happens” when commenting on the college shooting.

“The thing you have to take into account to a few extent is a lot of these European countries are a lot smaller”.