Obama: Back pro-gun control candidates to stop shootings

“My prayers are with everyone in Oregon, “tweeted Mike Huckabee.””.

The Republican presidential candidate blasted Obama on his official Facebook page Thursday night for immediate calls to pursue stricter gun-control laws.

On its website Friday (Oct. 2), CNN did just that. Oregon received a “D+” on gun laws from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. What is the motive? “Because our inaction is a political decision that we’re making”, Obama said during a White House press conference.

The numbers provided by the State Department are staggering, revealing that more than 10,000 Americans get killed every year by gun violence.

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly did something Thursday he never does when talking directly to the camera – he went off script, to deliver a strong Second Amendment message to President Barack Obama.

Gun Store owner Bob Irwin says whenever the president speaks about this issue, it has the opposite effect of what he intends. “I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances”. For the US’s big problem with guns is with illegal guns. There are scores of responsible gun owners in this country.

Not true. While Australia.they had a confiscation program.

“I would ask news organizations…to tally up the number of Americans who have been killed by terrorist attacks in the last decade and the number of Americans who have been killed by gun violence, and post those side-by-side on your news reports”, Obama said.

In his speech, the president said, “We talked about [gun control] after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charleston”.

In the wake of the Thursday Oregon shootings, a few critics of approving more gun safety measures point to Chicago as a reason additional laws are not the answer.

Many ask themselves, “What can I do to stop this violence?” A DC police officer recently confided to me that most of the gun crime in DC is committed by blacks on blacks. A conversation? A reading from a book? “He was continuing to shoot – what stopped him?”

The former Arkansas governor then noted UCC did not even arm its sole security guard.

“But we are not the only country on Earth who has people with mental illnesses who want to do harm to other people”, he said.

Investigators have fond 13 weapons connected to Mercer over the past 24 hours.

“The more knowledge you have, the better you can deal with the situation”, Solomon said.