Failure to act on gun control is ‘political decision’: Obama

Obama, visibly frustrated and shaken during his address, is once again advocating for responsible gun laws in America, because as the President stated, the current regulations do nothing to prevent similar situations from happening elsewhere in the country.

The routine nature of mass shooting in America will continue unless the country’s politics change, Obama said after meeting with reporters at the White House Thursday following news of the latest shooting.

Last year, Obama described the issue as the “biggest frustration” of his presidency.

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He added: “Somehow, this has become routine”. He urged members of Congress to take action.

Sample of Portland sent a message October 1 to worshippers gathered at St. Joseph Church in Roseburg.

The world can be a pretty sick place in so many different ways. Now all of them are wrong and shortsighted, but the people who spearhead things like this, like Obama, and whenever there are elected Democrats, they run out there at the first sign of trouble and try to politicize it in capitalize on it. That’s the right word.

They cite root causes of gun violence, including gangs and mental illness.

<i>”Ii> keep waiting for someone to tell me what new gun law can we pass that would have prevented this shooting or Sandy Hook or Aurora or Charleston”, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a taped statement posted on his website Friday. “We should not overlook this is occurring each and every day in overlooked neighborhoods around the nation”.

Mourners hold a vigil Thursday night in Roseburg, Ore., for the 10 people killed and seven wounded during a shooting at a community college.

‘We can actually do something about it’.

In Connecticut, there was Newtown, despite strict gun control laws, and just 4.4 gun deaths per 100,000 people, among the lowest in the nation.

This is probably hard to accept. For the liberal, every societal problem has a state-issued remedy waiting to be administered over the objections of a reactionary Republican.

By contrast, it said, “according to the U.S. State Department, the number of USA citizens killed overseas as a result of incidents of terrorism from 2004 to 2013 was 277″. Wants more gun control?

“And what’s become routine, of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common-sense gun legislation”, Obama said.

“You know what has happened, what are we going to do?” And this is not something I can do by myself. The substance of their message, nearly uniformly, read something like this: “My thoughts and prayers are with victims and their families, and those brought to grief by this terrible tragedy”.