obama says fight for gun laws 'ought to obsess us'
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."
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