Barack Obama actually said...

We spend over a trillion dollars, and pass countless laws, and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so. And yet, we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially reduce gun deaths. How can that be?

Context

Obama criticizes Congress for blocking efforts to gather data on gun deaths while spending heavily on preventing terrorism.

09/30/2015

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