But what’s the “it” we’re talking about here?
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281: The number of mass shootings past year.
Because if it is, we’re on the lesser of our gun problems. “As the investigation moves forward, it’s important for all of us, including our legislators, to see what we can do”.
“There may be mixed motives in this, which makes the investigation more complicated”, Obama said. “We don’t yet know what the motives of the shooters are, but what we do know is that there are steps we can take to make Americans safer”, Obama told CBS News of the San Bernardino shooting. And there’s nothing that we can do to stop them. What they do not have are everyday gun massacres. That’s despite the fact that we have them so often that the victim count has to get pretty high before the national news pays attention.
On Oct. 1, nine people were killed and nine more injured in a campus shooting at Umpqua Community College in southern Oregon.
Behind the scenes, White House officials have struck upon the so-called “gun show loophole” as an area for potential executive action.
Harvard researchers Amy Cohen, Deborah Azrael, and Matthew Miller found that, from 1982 to 2011, mass shootings occurred every 200 days on average. But overall, 33,636 Americans died from gun violence that year. The vast majority of gun deaths are not mass shootings, which account for well under 5 percent of all shooting deaths.
A common refrain after every mass shooting among lawmakers is that “now is not the time” to talk about gun control, as it would politicize a tragedy.
California, on the other hand, ranked third in the USA for mass shootings in 2015, with 24 mass shootings not including the one in San Bernardino.
Hours after the shooting, grim-faced Obama slammed Congress and gun-rights lobby groups for obstructing reforms of gun control laws. But he says “we all have a part to play”. You can watch his remarks Thursday below as they happen. Tens of millions of Americans, however, do not own guns. “Because he himself is determined to get to the bottom of what exactly happened”, he noted. “But we’re not even trying”, Kristof points out.
Democratic presidential contenders also pushed for tighter gun laws. Exactly which forms do they support? He labeled it as an “act of violence”.
“The time for prayers, thoughts, and sympathies is now”.
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“There was a pursuit of that vehicle, and eventually, that pursuit came back to San Bernardino Avenue between Mountain View and Richardson here in the city of San Bernardino, where the suspect vehicle stopped and there was an officer-involved shooting”, said San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan. At least 14 people were killed at the Inland Regional Center, a facility for people with developmental disabilities, Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said.
