Obama Blames Gun Laws After Terror Attack

We need to elect officials who are angry enough and have enough guts to address gun issues. And if they were terrorists, or even if they were not, and we have to ask why terrorists would target a holiday party in an obscure setting in an obscure town, that’s a lot of bullets.

Briefing reporters, FBI Director James Comey said the two suspects showed signs of radicalization but were not part of a broader network.

The couple agreed that the guns they carry offer a sense of security, a means of protection if the worst should happen, but D. Michalik said she needs to protect her conscious, too. The common denominator in American mass shootings is not jihadist terrorism. “And we will not be terrorized”, Obama said in his weekly address. “It’s another tragic reminder that here in America it’s way too easy for unsafe people to get their hands on a gun”, Obama said and reiterated his call to changes in the current gun control laws, which are vehemently being opposed by the Republican-controlled Congress. “And this is obviously important work that the administration has been quite focused on and the administration has worked closely with some of these outside groups to amplify the call of people across the country, so that members of Congress can be responsive to those public priorities”. By the same token, what would any gun control law do to prevent evil people from enacting their homicidal plans, be they Chicago gang-bangers or a religious zealot attacking a Planned Parenthood clinic?

Earlier today, the U.S. Senate voted against non-binding legislation to expand background checks, close the “terror gap”, and improve our mental health systems.

We better keep an eye on those guys. “And his policies would leave us defenseless”.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was also knocked off his talking point.

“Our president doesn’t want to use the term”, he said. “Guns can’t be blamed for Paris 11/13 Attacks; radical Islamic beliefs caused that carnage”. So as Republicans enthusiastically maneuver to pass a long-elusive Obamacare repeal, they’re also forced to go on record against broadening gun regulations. In the hours after the shooting, Trump initially cast such shootings “a mental health issue, to a large extent”.

There’s a very good reason why the gun control debate reignites after every mass shooting, just as it has after the massacre in San Bernardino. “Because our inaction is a political decision that we’re making”, Obama said at a news conference.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest has said that Obama was not backing off his push to drive a conversation about gun measures.

The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday rejected two new gun control measures.

How often private sales take place in the U.S. remains unclear and the lack of statistical evidence troubles those who mistrust government interference with the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.

If we’re unwilling to change the laws so that people on a no-fly list can’t buy a gun, what is the chance of, say, banning assault weapons again or mandating technology to make guns safer or punishing the few gun shops that willfully sell to criminals or expanding background checks or doing anything – other than pretending to talk seriously about mental illness – about gun violence?