Obama Doesn’t Mince Words in Call for Gun Control After Oregon Shooting: ‘Prayers Are Not Enough’

By Oliver Darcy

President Barack Obama delivered a strong call for gun control in the aftermath of the deadly Oregon shooting Thursday, saying from the White House that “thoughts and prayers” for the families “are not enough.”

“There’s been another mass shooting in America,” the president said at the outset of his remarks. “This time at a community college in Oregon.”

“In the coming days we will learn about the victims. The young men and women who were studying and learning and working hard, their eyes set on the future, their dreams, on what they could make of their lives. And America will wrap everyone who is grieving with our prayers and our love.”

Obama then turned to the issue of gun control.

“As I said just a few months ago … our thoughts and prayers are not enough,” he said. “It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted some place else in America.”

“This is something we should politicize,” Obama added.

Obama contended that “the notion that gun laws don’t work” is “not …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze