Posted June 18, 2015 1:51 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

President Barack Obama took several minutes out of his busy fund-raising schedule today to use the massacre of nine people in a Charleston, SC church to push for gun control:

Obama called Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church “more than a church,” noting that the church was founded by African-Americans who were seeking liberty and recalling how the church was once burned to the ground because its worshippers worked to end slavery.

“This is a sacred place in the history of Charleston and in the history of America,” he said.

The president then spoke more broadly about the mass shootings that have plagued the nation in recent history.

“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,” he said. “Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times. We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that once again, innocent people were killed, in part, because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”

While Obama noted that now is a time for mourning and healing, he said that America must eventually “reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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