President Obama on San Bernardino: It Is “Possible” Attack Was Terrorist-Related

But we can’t ignore the wide availability of guns, and the need to keep them out of the hands of criminals and the mentally unstable.

But what I can assure the American people is we’re going to get to the bottom of this and that we are going to be vigilant, as we always are, in getting the facts before we issue any decisive judgments in terms of how this occurred. A gun owner and avid hunter, he’s no anti-gun extremist.

“It’s the first time gun violence prevention has had the money”. We watched as Colorado Springs was held siege for more than five hours. Ben Carson stuck to remarks that never touched on San Bernardino.

In the past few years the United States has been experiencing a series of tragic mass shooting, the frequency of which has increased. “I believe we need to be protecting ourselves from guns not more guns”. If we truly care about this – if we’re going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience – then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. We can’t stop every mass shooting, but we can certainly make them less common. Police chiefs and law enforcement groups have unequivocally stated that closing this loophole is critical to strengthening our national security. Obama said after that incident that shootings are “something we should politicize” in order to exact a change in gun policy.

The president said Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is exploring whether the attack was an act of terrorism or workplace violence.

And in their suburban home, officials found thousands of bullets and a dozen pipe bombs. “But it turns out it probably was related – radical Islamic terrorism”. In the headlines, they’re calling it an arsenal. Both described their state, and themselves, as “heartbroken” over the massacre of 14 innocent people who were killed in the middle of a holiday work party. It was a different kind of horror show.

Senate also voted down a second proposal to the amendment to the Obamacare repeal bill, from Sen. It was a 10-year ban signed into law by President Clinton in 1994 and when it expired in 2004 there were multiple attempts to renew the ban in Congress and they all failed.

San Bernardino authorities confirmed that 14 people were killed and another 17 injured when up to three gunmen – two of whom have been identified as married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik – stormed a center for disabled adults and opened fire Wednesday.

Republicans were forced not only to vote on this, but they had to actually defend voting against it. Paul Ryan, the new House speaker who will have to vote on it soon, defended it on MSNBC saying, “People are saying, you know, this no-fly list”. “I got to tell you – if you’re too unsafe to fly in America, you are too risky to buy a gun in America”. “And we would deprive of them of their constitutionally protected due-process rights”.

The GOP claims be pro-life, but it’s far more pro-gun.

Public attitudes in a land awash with 300 million guns are changing, however, although the National Rifle Association maintains its death-like grip on the political class. But, for all too many, the response to another mass killing is simply to go out and buy more guns.