‘Another mass shooting in America‘: Oregon killings a grim familiarity for US
The US is reeling from another school shooting, the 45th this year, after a 26-year-old gunman murdered as many as nine people and wounded seven more at a community college in Oregon before he was killed.
Hours after the killings, President Obama clearly agitated at making his 15th statement on shootings since taking office, said: “There’s been another mass shooting in America” and spoke of the country being numbed by the repeated massacres.
“As I said just a few months ago and I said a few months before that and each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough.
It does nothing to prevent this carnage being inflicted some place in America, next week or a couple of months from now,” the president said. “Somehow this has become routine.”
Demand A Plan is a campaign of Everytown for Gun Safety
Notice that this video was uploaded in 2012.
It’s been three years since the Everytown campaign enlisted all of these celebrities to reinforce the need to work on a plan to control, maybe even end, gun violence.
To this day, nothing has been done.
What needs to happen to move the “powers that be” into action?
Republicans seem to be itching for another war …. wonder why!
BERNIE SANDERS
(I-Vermont)
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms.
Before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.