President Barack Obama told CBS News on Wednesday that an unfolding mass shooting in San Bernardino was yet another in a “pattern” of such shootings in the United States “that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.”
The shooting, which reportedly took place at the Inland Regional Center, a facility that serves individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, left as many as 20 victims.
“We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world,” Obama told CBS News. “And there are some steps we can take to not eliminate every one of these mass shootings but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently.”
Obama said those steps could include stronger background checks and “common sense gun safety laws,” reiterating the same call for more gun control reforms that he’s issued after past mass shootings.
“We should never think that this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events because it doesn’t happen with the same frequency in other countries,” he said.
Watch some of Obama’s comments:
“My hope is — we’re able to contain this particular shooting,” @POTUS tells @NorahODonnell https://t.co/HvzQ0Yeat1 https://t.co/jjNND1xDKR
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 2, 2015
We fear Syrian refugees that might have one in 10 thousand terrorist, yet let our homegrown terrorists buy military grade weapons at will. Impossible to comrehend
As the micro-world that far right tea party republicans live in diverges farther and farther from reality, it’s just getting harder and harder to fathom what passes for reason in their infected brains. There is no justification for senseless murder like this, whether committed by ISIS, Al Qaeda or paramilitary tea party groups. It’s not idealogical, it’s the Manson Family with unlimited guns at their disposal, seizing on whatever convenient insane idea some demagogue furnishes them with. A worldwide tragedy unfolding. It’s just called murder, nothing else.
If guns were outlawed, maybe white-male outlaws couldn’t have guns.
amen to that i just heard the police conference at least 14 dead