Obama Tears Up: ‘Every Time I Think About Those Kids It Gets Me Mad’ (VIDEO)

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, wipes away tears from his cheek as he recalled the 20 first-graders killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, while speaking in the East Room of ... President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, wipes away tears from his cheek as he recalled the 20 first-graders killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, while speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS
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President Barack Obama, tears running down his face, reminded Americans on Tuesday afternoon about the 20 elementary-school children who died in the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,” Obama said after rattling off a list of personal liberties taken from the victims of gun violence, during his remarks announcing new executive actions on gun control.

While he said he respects the Second Amendment as a former constitutional law professor, Obama said that other rights, including freedom of religion, have been taken away from the victims of mass shootings.

“Second Amendment rights are important, but there are other rights we care about as well. And we have to be able to balance them,” he said. “Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina and that was denied to Jews in Kansas City and that was denied to Muslims in Chapel Hill and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They have rights, too.”

As he ran down the list of other mass shootings that occurred during his presidency, Obama got emotional when he got to the mention of Newtown.

“Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from moviegoers in Aurora and Lafayette,” he said. “Our unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara and from high schoolers at Columbine. And from first graders in Newtown. First graders. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from their lives from a bullet from a gun. Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.”

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  1. Look closely…the finger he used to wipe away those tears was aimed right at the RWNJ fuckers who celebrate the dead children in our schools and the useless rwnj clowns in congress who refuse to do anything about it.

  2. Avatar for livi_o livi_o says:

    America will never be great again until we have a strong leader who won’t cry unless it’s for a really good reason, like seeing a windmill from one of your golf courses.

  3. If ever it could be said that tears are brilliant, that happened today.

  4. Avatar for nova nova says:

    that’s what being a leader looks like.

  5. OHbummER teaRs UP the SEcOND aMENDment. Weeps BEcAUSE he’s Literally Murdered AMerica bY Literally Gnawing AT Its FABric. LIbtard ELITEs WILL ROO not PAYIng aTTEntion TO the ANGer! That’s WHY TRuMP haS MILLIOns of PEOPle at his RALLIEs and HAs POLE NUmbers WHILE HITLAry wILL SOON languish in FEderAL PRISon FOR DOING Benghazi AND EmAILS. ONLY LIBeraL ELItes HAVE SERvers TO Serve THE EMaiL AND OTHer household HELP!!!1!!one!!11!!!

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