Barack Obama: “These weapons of war, when combined with high-capacity magazines, have one purpose: to inflict maximum damage as quickly…”

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.