President Obama: “We spend over a trillion dollars, and pass countless laws, and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil…And yet, we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially reduce gun deaths.”
President Obama: “Iai??i??d ask the American people to think about how they can get our government to change these laws, and to save lives, and to let young people grow up.” Call your members of Congress right now.
It happened again. Another school shooting. Americans are sending thoughts and prayers to the people of Roseburg, Oregon.
The President delivered a powerfulAi??call to action.Ai??Here’s a small excerpt:
Our thoughts and prayers are 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 someplace else in America.
We’ve become numb to this.
And, of course, whatai??i??s also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic.
This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction.
Iai??i??d ask the American people to think about how they can get our government to change these laws, and to save lives, and to let young people grow up.
(Read the full remarks on the White House blog, h/t Lindsay Holst)
Republicans in Congress need to hear about this — because they too often hear from a small but vocal minority who oppose all gun laws.
Democrats in Congress need to hear about this — because even many supporters of gun laws have become dispirited, and they won’t act boldly in the absence of public outcry.
Take part in ending these tragedies — call Congress today.
Watch the President’s remarks. Call Congress now. Then, pass this on.
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