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Barack Obama: “Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette. Our unalienable right to…”

On the recordJanuary 5, 2016
Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette. Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine, and from first graders in New Town -- first graders. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. Every time I think about those kids it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama discusses the impact of gun violence and the need for action in response to shootings.

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