President Obama said on Friday that if lawmakers had responded to his earlier calls for reform of the nation’s gun laws “we might have some more Americans still here with us.”
“You all might have to attend fewer funerals,” he said. “Some families might still be whole.”
Obama made the remarks in the wake of a mass shooting in Charleston, S.C. Nine people were killed at a historic black church in the city on Wednesday evening. Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, has been charged with nine counts of murder in the atrocity.
Obama made the remarks as he asserted that he would not abandon his quest fo stricter gun control.
“I am not resigned,” Obama said at the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco.
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I have heard the argument that if one of those church members were armed, this tragedy may have been prevented. While that is probable, is this the society that we want to become? A moot question because that is the society that we already are. If you want to be safe and secure, you have to be armed. That also means training. The 2nd Amendment’s purpose is to protect the people from the government. People who understand this also know that gun control has no impact on criminals: look at Chicago.
The pResident only needs to look into the mirror (along with Eric Holder) to see who is responsible for the decline in race relations in the country.
David DeGerolamo
Gun Grabber in Chief will do whatever it takes to disarm the people….