Political Quotes

“Last Thursday another horrific episode of gun violence--the seemingly unrelenting stream of tragedy and horror--only this time it was visited on Oregon, in a modest mill town of Roseburg. The scene of the carnage was a picturesque, some would say idyllic, community college campus just north of town, where a shooter burst into a classroom at Umpqua Community College and started methodically killing nine people, wounding seven others. On the 274th day of 2015, this was the 294th such episode. President Obama made an impassioned, forceful, and poignant response--at once fierce and sad, as eloquent as anything I have heard him say throughout his political career. And who could blame him? Not a single calendar week has passed during his second term without another mass shooting. The core of his message was the question for all Americans, especially the apologists for gun violence: Why is the United States the only developed country in the world that cannot protect our families from gun massacres? No other country comes remotely close to this carnage. Why should we lose 15 times as many as our family members as Germany every year?…”