Barack Obama actually said...

"If you care about the gun control issue, make this a single issue, vote on this issue."

"We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths, so the notion that gun laws don't work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals will still get..."

"Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic."

"And what's become routine, of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common sense gun legislation."