Posted June 19, 2015 7:33 pm by Comments

By Oliver Darcy

President Barack Obama address the U.S. Conference of Mayors during their annual meeting in San Francisco on June 19, 2015.  (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama pushed for gun control legislation to be passed Friday afternoon, two days after a white male entered a historically black Charleston church and opened fire, killing nine.

“[A]s much as we grieve this particular tragedy, I think it’s important, as I mentioned at the White House, to step back and recognize these tragedies have become far too commonplace,” Obama said while addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in San Francisco.

President Barack Obama address the U.S. Conference of Mayors during their annual meeting in San Francisco on June 19, 2015. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

“More than 11,000 Americans were killed by gun violence in 2013 alone — 11,000. If Congress had passed some common-sense gun safety reforms after Newtown, after a group of children had been gunned down in their own classroom — reforms that 90 percent of the American people supported – we wouldn’t have prevented every act of violence, or even most,” the president continued. “We don’t know if it would have prevented what happened in Charleston. No reform can guarantee the elimination of violence. But we might still have some more Americans with us.”

“We might have stopped one shooter,” Obama added. “Some families might still be …read more

Source:: The Blaze

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