Obama Calls For More Legislation To Limit Gun Access

Obama said the pattern of USA mass shootings “has no parallel anywhere else in the world”. Ryan was cautious not to label the shooting, before the facts were known.

Ms Chaplin said she was happy to be an American, but the country had to change its gun laws in the wake of another mass shooting to avoid ruining not only innocent lives, but its worldwide reputation.

“The American people need to say “this is not what America is about”.

“People have due process rights in this country”, he said.

“At this point, this is now a FBI investigation that’s been done in cooperation and consultation with local law enforcement”, he said.

“When I got my firearms, I had a background check”, Dade said.

Fourteen people were killed and 21 others injured in Wednesday’s shooting rampage at a social services center in San Bernardino, California that ended with the two suspects, a married couple, dead in a wild firefight with police.

The president acknowledged that gun violence can’t be eliminated completely but that it’s possible to make it harder for people to carry out such violence.

According to ShootingTracker.com, which tracks deaths by guns in America, the US has seen 355 mass shootings – defined as incidents in which four or more victims are shot – so far in 2015.

Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn failed to win an alternative putting gun sales on hold for 72 hours for people on watch lists. “And they do make me furious”.

When asked whether the president should focus more on addressing the actual causes of the Wednesday’s shooting, Earnest said that “certainly should be a part of the discussion”. How influential is the gun lobby in the US?

And in defiance of well over 80 percent of the American public, GOP lawmakers voted against strengthening background checks by closing the gun show loophole. On Friday, Obama met with gun control advocates former Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband astronaut Mark Kelly at the White House to discuss progress.

Such jarring statistics underscore the brutal truth behind the BBC’s report on San Bernardino Wednesday evening, which opened with the chilling words, “Just another day in the United States of America”. “This shouldn’t be a partisan issue”.

“That is a very significant, hard threat to confront”, the Florida Republican said on CBS “This morning”.

All were blocked by Republicans from moving forward.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats will continue to push the legislation and may try to attach it to an omnibus spending bill to fund the government through the 2016 fiscal year. Mostly over trying to decipher the logic behind the rhetoric being spewed at the general direction of the NRA, Christians, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and law-abiding gun owners, in light of a domestic terrorism attack committed by a devout Muslim (no, I will not say workplace violence or global warming prompted this).

Obama stated, “And I will do everything I can to make sure that there’s a sustained attention paid to this thing”.