Republicans who point to mental health services as the solution had begun to blame extremist views.
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Minutes earlier, the Senate killed a rival plan by Republican Sen.
“Our expectation is, is that this may take some time before we’re able to sort it all through”, said the president.
One of those things, she said, is the current effort by Moms Demand Action and other groups to toughen background checks on a state-by-state basis.
Reacting to the shooting Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton tweeted: “I refuse to accept this as normal”.
Obama said Wednesday that Congress should, at a minimum, take up legislation that would bar anyone on the federal terrorist watch list from buying a gun. “It does raise some serious questions about how we need to be protecting ourselves”. “It says more about people than it says about guns”. “It is also possible that this was workplace related”.
On Thursday, the president walked a fine line in the discussion, mindful of an ongoing investigation and shifting circumstances.
Every year the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence looks at just that and grades states on their laws regulating guns.
Obama was given an update from Lisa Monaco, his Homeland Security advisor, according to reporters at the White House.
“An act of evil unfolded in California”.
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. “And his policies would leave us defenseless”.
LIASSON: That’s a law that should be changed, the president said. Emerging details about the San Bernardino shooters’ backgrounds – including links to self-radicalization and ISIS ties – could also wind up obscuring a renewed gun control push with new focus on tracking and monitoring potential terrorists.
“I think we always want to pray for people that lose some”, John Kasich said, before adding that he did not think gun control would prevent shootings.
Less than a week ago, a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs and killed three people, including a police officer. Congress refuses even to require background checks on all firearms purchases, an action supported by the vast majority of Americans. It’s unsurprising that a shooting with more than 31 casualties consumed the nation’s attention on Wednesday, but it’s a sad commentary on how routine gun violence has become that we tend only to pay attention when there are casualties on such a dramatic scale. On Thurs., within the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, Obama referred to as again on legislatures to pass legislation to make it more constant for violent people to come up with weapons.
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And she said they see a definite correlation between the grades they give states and the amount of gun violence a state sees.
