‘We should never think that this is something that just happens’: Obama hammers home gun control message in response to San Bernardino mass-shooting
President pushes for bipartisan action on a law that would bar people on ‘no fly list’ from buying guns
Gun rights activists insist that terrorists and the worst criminals don’t buy firearms through legal channels
Interview with CBS News happened to be underway while news of the San Bernardino massacre was breaking
Obama changed his claim from a day ago – that mass gun violence ‘doesn’t happen in other countries’ – by saying this time that ‘it doesn’t happen with the same frequency’ outside the United States
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor
Dailymail.com
2 December 2015
President Barack Obama responded to Wednesday mass-shooting in San Bernardino, California with a repeated call for tighter gun-control laws including a ban on firearms purchases by people on America’s ‘no fly list.’
‘We should never think that this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events,’ he told CBS News, ‘because it doesn’t happen with the same frequency in other countries.’
CBS was interviewing the president as the shooting unfolded.
That language – ‘with the same frequency’ – was a departure from his words Tuesday morning in Paris, the site of a masacre less than three weeks earlier, when he claimed large-scale gun violence ‘doesn’t happen in other countries.’
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