In Orlando, Florida, where a gunman opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub and pledged allegiance to ISIS during his rampage, President Obama faulted “our politics” (read: Republicans and the NRA) for the attack:
Pres Obama said "our politics have conspired to make it easy for a terrorist or disturbed person to but extraordinarily powerful weapons."
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 16, 2016
As for those who claimed that if somebody in the club had been armed lives might have been saved, Obama had this to say:
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/743532533271388160
Is the president saying victims of Omar Mateen’s rampage would have somehow been less safe if some clubgoers had been carrying a means to defend themselves? That simply, well, defies common sense. But we’re used to it from this president.
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