Marco Rubio, for instance, said: “There is just no evidence that these gun laws would prevent these shootings”.
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Umpqua Community College students join others at Stewart Park, in Roseburg, Oregon, for a candlelight vigil for those killed during a fatal shooting at the school, October 1, 2015.
“It will require that the American people, individually, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent, when you decide to vote for somebody, are making a determination as to whether this cause of continuing death for innocent people should be a relevant factor in your decision”, Obama said.
Seven years on, Obama is still struggling to get past those politics – but a few gun-rights advocates believe he has tried his best.
Friday morning, the two US senators from Connecticut announced new legislation that would ban gun sales until background checks are completed.
The President also said he has asked his administration to look into “what kinds of authorities do we have to enforce the laws that we have in place more effectively to keep guns out of the hands of criminals”.
“Someone will comment and say, ‘Obama politicized this issue.’ Well, this is something we should politicize”, he said.
“We already have over 22,500 laws on the books that regulate the ownership, use and possession of firearms”, said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation.
Nearly as horrific as today’s campus massacre in Oregon where a gunman killed at least ten people is the callous indifference on the part of most Americans and virtually all of our elected officials.
Wilma Wood, 73, grew up in Roseburg and described her home to INSIDE EDITION as a sleepy town where one wouldn’t think twice about leaving their door unlocked. He pointed to US lawmakers’ refusal to pass gun control measures that he said would curb mass shootings and reduce the level of gun violence. Is he going to take any specific actions, for example?
“We are not the only country on Earth that has people with mental illnesses or want to do harm to other people”, Obama said.
He said it’s clear that anyone responsible for such carnage has a sickness in his mind.
“If we were able to magically cure schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, that would be wonderful”, Dr. Jeffrey Swanson, a professor of Psychiatry at Duke, said in an interview with ProPublica past year.
Opinion polls show that roughly nine out of 10 registered USA voters support so-called universal background checks.
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“Then we locked the doors, turned off the lights and … we were all pretty much in panic mode and called 911 and our parents and (said) “I love yous” because we didn’t know what would happen, if those were our last words”. The British also started searching for guns and ammunition without warrants. Between 1966 and 2012, there were 90 mass shootings in the United States, where there is almost one firearm for every American.
