Obama: Orlando victims' families pleaded with me to stop the violence
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Obama: Orlando victims' families pleaded with me to stop the violence
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 11:19 AM ET, Fri June 17, 2016
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have laid flowers at an Orlando memorial
Obama has traveled to the sites of at least nine shootings during his two terms
(CNN)President Barack Obama said Thursday that grief-filled parents in Orlando pleaded with him to take steps preventing the kind of gun violence that took their children. But he acknowledged, exasperatedly, that he could offer them few promises.
"Our politics have conspired to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or even just a disturbed individual to buy extraordinarily powerful weapons, and they can do so legally," Obama said after meeting with families who lost loved ones in the Orlando nightclub shooting that took place Sunday.
"I held and hugged grieving family members and parents and they asked, 'Why does this keep happening?' And they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage," Obama said. "They don't care about the politics. Neither do I."
The role of consoler in chief was a repeat assignment for Obama, was has now traveled to 10 American cities -- including four in the last year -- scarred by mass shooting events. In Orlando, he met at a downtown arena with both families of victims and survivors of the terrorist attack, many of whom suffered serious injuries but emerged from the massacre alive.........................
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He should give President Carter a call. He's really getting up there but sharp as ever. He knows what the President is up against. 
President Carter shares his perspective on gun violence at home.:
Sep 1, 2015
President Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center, an organization he founded in 1982. President Carter spoke with Institute for Economics and Peace-USA’s Executive Director, Aubrey Fox, about his views on peace for Diplomatic Courier's special 10 year anniversary print edition. Here are highlights from the interview.:
Jun 16, 2016
