Because he’s human, and the pointless loss of human life is devastating by anyone’s standard, POTUS was so overcome with emotion as he announced executive actions to make obtaining a firearm much more hard – remembering the 20 kids killed in 2012 by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School – that he shed a few tears at the lectern.
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“Outnumbered” co-host Andrea Tantaros, not surprisingly, was the greatest offender on Tuesday.
Not everybody was excited about the President’s action this week of course, as Republican candidates seeking the GOP nomination have unanimously criticized the move to close the so-called “gun show loophole” and enforce background checks.
Then Fox News chose to mock him for it. “I would check that podium for, like, a raw onion”, host Andrea Tantaros said.
See that thing you’re feeling right now?
French concluded: “Barack Obama won’t be the last president to feel this deeply about gun control, and his tears reflect the deep feelings of millions of Americans, including those who effectively control the entertainment consumed by millions more”. And he can’t pull that kind of passion for anything about this. Numerous commentators on Fox News, like Melissa Francis and Meghan McCain, said they were infuriated that Obama didn’t cry publicly after the recent San Bernardino and Paris attacks.
“Are you fucking kidding me?”
The roundtable claimed that Obama only “ever gets upset about this, and never about terror”. “Hillary Clinton is, I think, worse than Obama on the issue, frankly, she wants to take everyone’s gun away”. “And the award goes to… we are in awards season”.
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She went on to argue that the president should have spoken out about gun violence and paid visits to Chicago earlier in his presidency.
