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Obama Uses South Carolina Killings to Call for Gun Control Rethink
President Thursday appeared at the White House to mourn the killing of nine African Americans in South Carolina in a apparently racially motivated mass murder, using the tragedy to call for Americans to change the way they think about guns.
“I have had to make statement like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times,” Obama said. “We do know that once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no problem getting his hands on a gun.”
Obama all but admitted that gun control measures were not likely to pass anytime soon, charging that “the politics in this town” probably prevents it. But he also appeared to acknowledged that the “politics” reflected thinking in the country, implicitly criticizing Americans for not attaining the same enlightened state on the issue as other “advanced” countries.
“At some point, it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it and for us to be able to shift how we think of gun violence collectively,” he said.
Source: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/06/18/obama-south-carolina-killings-call-gun-control-rethink/
