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Cali_Democrat

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 07:00 PM Jun 2015

Watch Obama Address Homicidal Gun Violence Again, And Again, And Again, And Again, And...

President Barack Obama found himself in a familiar, dark place on Thursday: addressing the nation about a shooting that had taken multiple lives.

It was the 14th time during his administration that he had been forced to issue a statement in response to a mass killing, according to CBS’ Mark Knoller. And his frustration over having to repeatedly mark these morose occasions clearly weighed on him. The president spent a large part of his remarks bemoaning how the political system has completely failed to respond to gun violence.

A look back underscores the growing sense of hopelessness the president must feel. Once clinical and business-like when responding to tragedy, Obama now seems emotionally worn down and at times overtly angry when these incidents occur. Above is footage of the president in the wake of gun-related violence: from the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, to the killings in Aurora, Colorado; the near-assassination of Gabby Giffords to the slaughtering of children in Newtown, Connecticut; the murders at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee to the latest deaths at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/18/obama-gun-violence-_n_7615838.html

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Watch Obama Address Homicidal Gun Violence Again, And Again, And Again, And Again, And... (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Jun 2015 OP
14 times. what did Einstein say about insanity? NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #1

NRaleighLiberal

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1. 14 times. what did Einstein say about insanity?
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 07:02 PM
Jun 2015


not aimed at our president - but all politicians - and people - that enable this to happen. time and time again.

in case the quote isn't familiar - Insanity is doing the same thing the same way over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
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