Obama After Charleston: We Have to ‘Reckon With the Fact That This Type of Mass Violence Doesn’t Happen in Other Advanced Countries’

President Barack Obama speaks about the shooting deaths of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., from the press briefing room of the White House in Washington, June 18, 2015. (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama expressed sorrow and anger the morning after a gunmen fatally shot nine people at a South Carolina church, and said it’s time for the nation to “reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence doesn’t happen in other advanced countries.”

“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,” Obama said Thursday. “Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times.”

“We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun,” Obama said, joined at the podium by Vice President Joe Biden. “But let’s be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it.”

Police arrested 21-year-old Dylann Roof in Shelby, North Carolina, during a traffic stop Thursday morning after he allegedly opened fire Wednesday night at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Authorities are investigating it as a hate crime.

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phil
phil
10 years ago

HE is a freaking incompetent buffoon in a clowns costume. There is more violence over seas , especially where he was born and the middle east then we can imagine. This fraud is a FILTHY DREAMER with FILTHY LIES and distortions of truth.

Rich
Rich
10 years ago

What planet is this guy living on.. Please define advanced country!!

Look at the Middle East how Christians are being murdered..
Look at Mexico where up to 100,000 have been murdered – they are disarmed..

Someone needs to put more info out on this Regimes DOJ now outlining
his Unconstitutionl/Communistic Exec Orders that will attack gun ownership
thru the mental health system…..
This comes directly out of pre-WWII Eastern Europe..

Hillbilly
Hillbilly
10 years ago

Some of the other countries? Yeah they use stones, it’s called stoning. Machete’s are popular in some African countries, used for ethnic cleansing. Vary sophisticated .Your right Mr O, us Americans are so behind the times. Take for an example our Resident and Chief, Following the path taken back in 1933 to 38 in Germany.

phil
phil
10 years ago
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Obongo is a filthy vile perverted dreamer and he is a sodomite, so when his presidency ends will the islamics get him because they don’t allow sodomites in there countries , they kill them, so what happens to Obongo do they allow him to live, they know he is a sodomite or do they look the other way like the good little Islamic foot soldiers they are.