Posted December 3, 2015 5:02 pm by Comments

By Fred Lucas

White House press secretary Josh Earnest during the daily press briefing, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Shortly after the Wednesday mass shooting in California, President Barack Obama called for stricter background checks and banning anyone on the no-fly list from buying a gun. However, asked if either of those policies would have prevented the shooting, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, “Of course not.”

According to police, a husband and wife shot and killed 14 people Wednesday at a social service center for the disabled in San Bernardino, wounding more than a dozen others in what appears to have been a planned attack. The alleged shooters, Syed Farook, 28, and Tasfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout with police. A man claiming to be Farook’s father revealed his son was a devout Muslim.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Shortly after the shooting, while police were still investigating the matter and the suspects were at large, Obama said in an interview with CBS News that Congress should pass laws to enact stricter gun control and ban anyone on the government’s no-fly list from purchasing a firearm.

ABC News reporter Jon Karl asked, “Did he have any indication at that point that, if Congress instituted stronger background checks, it would have prevented this incident?”

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Source:: The Blaze

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