On the recordSeptember 30, 2015
Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the after path of it, we become numb to this.
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transcripts.cnn.comBarack Obama: “Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The…”
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President Obama expresses frustration over the routine nature of responses to mass shootings and the numbness that has developed in society.
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