In true President Obama style he used the shooting of the churchgoers in Charleston to put focus on his agenda: guns.
Obama said:Any death of this sort is a tragedy. Any shooting involving multiple victims is a tragedy. There is something particularly heartbreaking about death happening in a place in which we seek solace and we seek peace.
He also said:
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Obama was actually wrong in his statement. It does happen in other countries and countries that guns are outlawed. If a person has a mental problem they will chose any kind of weapon they can get their hands on.
The real issue at hand is the fact the mental health system in the United States needs to be reformed but no one is focusing on that. They are focusing on the guns which are harmless by themselves and a vital utility for self protection. It is when that gun gets into the hands of the mentally disturbed or thugs there is a problem.In some states, officials have little to no tracking of people that were in a mental facility and I am talking about the people who have violent tendencies. They will not even come out to check on a former patient unless they literally try to shoot someone of hurt themselves. That doesn’t make any sense, does it? A lot of prior patients stop taking their medicines as well and it becomes a downward spiral from there.
Back to guns, since President Obama can not get any anti gun bills approved by Congress he using executive action to get the job done. Look for more of that in the future.
He also said:
The politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right no.
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 about the issue of gun violence collectively.