Obama: It’s possible California shooting was terrorism-related

We will keep ending up right back here, mourning the innocent victims of San Bernardino or Charleston or Newtown. We need to figure out how to help people see a ray of light, a bit of hope, in what can often be perceived as a hopeless situation. The Government Accountability Office has documented that over years of congressional blockage, hundreds of suspected terrorists on the watchlist bought guns.

Whatever the motive or mental state of the killer, guns are the weapon of choice, especially ones that can kill many people quickly. In Colorado Springs, because “baby parts”.

I suppose I know the answer to that question when the current Republican frontrunner for president retweets that after the shooting in San Bernardino his poll numbers jump every time instances like this occur. “This is work that should unite us all – as Americans – so that we’re doing everything in our power to defend our country”, he said. And yet we have been powerless to do anything about it.

We need to elect officials who are angry enough and have enough guts to address gun issues. “We’ve had break-ins and owning them makes us feel safe”.

Through Dec. 4, 464 people died and 1,318 people were wounded as a result of such shootings this year, according to data pulled from the Guns Are Cool subreddit group and the Mass Shooting Tracker dataset, which the group maintains through crowdsourced reporting.

“I think the president would say that we have and I think the statistics that the Department of Justice can share with you about the number of individuals and the number of plots that have been disrupted I think is a pretty good accounting of how focused our law enforcement and our intelligence professionals are on this”, he said.

Federal authorities have indicated the couple, who had accumulated massive amounts of weaponry and ammunition as well as homemade pipe bombs, sympathized with Islamic militants. Some are calling to make gun laws as strict as they are in Australia and France, which would make purchasing automatic weapons illegal.

“Normally, I think, try and take care of the causes, instead of just the symptoms, but the symptom is so bad that obviously we want to start somewhere”, Kulczyk says. The activists, whotrack shootings at the website Shooting Tracker, define a mass shooting as any shooting where 4 or more people are injured or killed. It was a different kind of horror show. “It’s un-American. It violates the very core constitutional protections afforded to all Americans”, Cornyn said on the Senate floor of the Democrats’ amendment. It also voted down a bill expanding background checks to more gun purchases. In other words, it said if you’re on a list that prevents you from getting on an airplane, it also prevents you from buying, say, an assault rifle.

Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota voted against the proposed amendment, while Republican Sen.

“That’s how we can send a message to all those who would try to hurt us”, he said. Sometimes people are put on there by mistake. “They’re outdated. That’s something we’re working on right now”, argued Ryan in his first major address as speaker of the House.