Obama Says Fight For Gun Laws 'Ought To Obsess Us'

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Sunday memorialized the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting by urging Americans not to give up on a transformation in gun laws that he argued are to blame for an epidemic of violence. "There is nothing inevitable about it - it comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make," Obama said.

Reprising his role of the nation's consoler in chief after yet another mass shooting, Obama issued a call to action on gun control measures that failed to pass earlier this year and show no new momentum in the wake of last week's rampage at a military installation just blocks from the Capitol.

"Our tears are not enough," Obama told thousands gathered to mourn at the Marine Barracks. "Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change."

Obama said when such senseless deaths strike in America, "it ought to be a shock to all of us, it ought to obsess us. It ought to lead to some sort of transformation."

But, Obama said, "nothing happens. Alongside the anguish of these American families, alongside the accumulated outrage so many of us feel, sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this. As Americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work."

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It would be much easier to get gun laws passes IF the people trusted our government. They don't and hence gun laws will not be strengthened in any serious manner.

[Thinkingabout]

1. Are you saying you trust tje growing number of mass killings shooters more?

[Purveyor]

2. I trust either about the same when we have our gov't invading sovereign countries and killing

hundreds of thousand, i.e. Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, etc.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Kinda what I thought, you are not serious about gun control and until you do and many others do

This nation will continue to be attacked by guns in the hands of those incapable to handle them sensibly.

[frazzled]

4. What does trust have to do with it?

What, you think they're going to come take your guns away? If you think that, you are in the wrong place.

A law will be a law. That's how we work things in this country. Not by stockpiling guns because you have some paranoid delusions about the government, which you think can't be trusted.