02/27/2011
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"He seems fired up. He wants to do something."
"As I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It's not enough."
"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..."
"the president flat out said, let's politicize this tonight. And he promised to politicize it every time it comes up again in the future."