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President outraged by #UCCShooting relatively silent on Doctors Without Borders bombing; Update: Awaits Pentagon investigation

Just hours after the deadly mass shooting on the campus of Umpqua Community College Thursday, President Obama emerged to deliver a speech shaming America for becoming numb to such preventable atrocities.

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Many pointed out the shootings that occur routinely in cities like Chicago, which saw around 50 people shot last weekend and the weekend before that, none of which received a mention from the administration.

Hale Razor notes that Nobel Peace Prize recipient President Obama, who seemed personally offended by the #UCCShooting, has been relatively quiet about another senseless mass killing — this one taking the lives of at least nine Doctors Without Borders staff members.

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Update: It took quite a while longer than the campus shooting response and wasn’t delivered by press conference, but President Obama did offer his condolences to those killed in a U.S. strike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital.

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