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NPR BREAKING NEWS:
At Newtown Memorial, Obama Pledges Action
"We can't tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end, and to end them we must change," the president said at a memorial service for the victims of Friday's mass shooting in Connecticut. He pledged to use "whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens ... in an effort to prevent more tragedies like this."
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BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)It was a eulogy, not a policy speech. Sheesh.
Indykatie
(3,697 posts)I am among the surprised that he even broached the topic of change being needed at the service though I firmly believe he is committed to effecting some change in policy following this tragedy,
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Sorry I only meant that because many of us here are talking specifics that must have clouded my judgement, so I will look forward to a policy speech about the subject.
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something about that...
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Yeah, he's going to deliver that at a memorial service.
Sheesh.
Cha
(297,655 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Obviously I get it now that he shouldn't be specific at a memorial service, my mind was clouded initially due to all the forum talk about specifics on how to stop this violence..... but in the end, it is he who will have to initiate and lead this change, when I see people on this forum that support gun rights some as strongly as if they were part of the NRA it dims my hope that anything will be done, but if nothing gets done now than I think I can safely say nothing will ever get done and I will consider it a direct failure of President Obama to lead on the issue. If we fail from the same old talking points like "guns don't kill people", "Guns are not easy to access", and of course the loathesome "If only more people had guns, they could shoot back" crap that the rightwing and NRA lobbyists are going to throw at us than I say it is dis-service to those that gave their lives to teach us these lessons.... How many more must die?
Cha
(297,655 posts)Friends and a Grieving Nation.
dickthegrouch
(3,184 posts)He needs OUR assistance to achieve any change in policy. WE must stand strong with him.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)for all the children across america enough is enough...
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)Screwing it up on purpose?
George II
(67,782 posts)........not some slick network studio.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I am too. The opposition to doing SOMETHING about guns is an outrage.
Despite the rhetoric it might surprise America to find out that not EVERYONE in America has a gun. There are whole communities where there are no guns at all. It's just that those who DO have guns sometimes have TONS of them which skews the stats.
As a matter of fact, I'll BET that after this happened the usual faces showed up at their local gun store to make yet another purchase. Even buying duplicates of guns they already have in a panic that they wont be able to get them. Then there are those buying them pre-ban to make a fortune re-selling them post-ban.
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)We need a Ribbon and a bracelet .. ."END GUN VIOLENCE NOW"!!
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)AllyCat
(16,222 posts)...the violence visited on our children year after year is the price of our freedom?"
RC
(25,592 posts)I may prove useful as come back to the gun nutz.
blaze
(6,373 posts)I lost it at the end when he read the names of the kids.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It was a call to action in the form of a prayer.
sasha031
(6,700 posts)I hope we do something as a nation and can have an intelligent dialog about this....
outsideworld
(601 posts)I kept saying , wow he just went there
Eric the Reddish
(106 posts)Thank you for posting, HS!
AndySipowicz
(26 posts)Aside from tighter gun laws, maybe placing a trained, armed security officer in schools would help.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)6502
(249 posts)Original Video:
#!Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/12/16/president-obama-speaks-prayer-vigil-victims-shooting-connecticut