Obama: "It ought to obsess us."

[Robb]

President Barack Obama has called for a transformation in US gun laws at a memorial service for the Washington navy yard shooting victims, saying, "There's nothing inevitable about it."

Obama said Americans should honour the victims of last Monday's shooting by insisting on a change in gun laws. "It ought to obsess us," Obama said.

"Sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this."

He said no other advanced nation endured the kind of gun violence seen in the United States, and blamed mass shootings on laws that fail "to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people".

"What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun," he said.

Read More: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/obama-navy-yard-gun-laws-inevitable

[msongs]

1. people with guns in their hands are all dangerous people by definition. nt

[Robb]

2. Agreed. There is this odd notion that they are "potentially dangerous"

...as if "dangerous" does not already mean there's some slight chance you aren't in danger.

[Skittles]

3. the "home of the brave" needs to stop catering to paranoid cowards

[BainsBane]

4. Absolutely!

[Oakenshield]

5. Completely got his back on this subject.

We have a gun violence epidemic in this country, and it's in desperate need of being dealt with.

[SoutherDem]

6. "What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun," he said.

What's different in America is we have the 2nd Amendment.

[billh58]

8. The Second Amendment

does NOT preclude regulation and oversight of the ownership and use of lethal weapons. The Second Amendment does NOT permit the unfettered supply of guns to criminals by "legal" no-questions-asked private sales. The Second Amendment does NOT permit gun owners to carelessly allow access to their deadly weapons by children.

Yes, we have the Second Amendment, but the NRA uses it as a marketing tool for profits for their gun manufacturer sponsors, and has made a mockery of a Constitutional Right through the corruption of right-wing politicians (from both sides of the aisle). Gun nuts make a mockery of the Second Amendment when they walk around in public with an AR-15 strapped over their shoulder just because it is their "Right." The Second Amendment does NOT grant individual gun owners the "Right" to determine when it is time to overthrow the elected government of the United States of America.

The Second Amendment does NOT guarantee that it should be "easy to get your hands on a gun."

[Cha]

7. Thank you, Robb.. and I'd like to add this quote from Bob Cesca,

today..

The Grief Counselor-In-Chief

We can’t accept this. As Americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there’s nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. There’s nothing normal about our children being gunned down in our classrooms. There’s nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets.

http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/09/the-grief-counselor-in-chief.html

h/t sheshe BOG http://www.democraticunderground.com/110216913#post23