Watch this emotional video of Obama’s speeches after 7 mass shootings
“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,’’ President Obama said in a speech about the Charleston shooting. “Once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.’’
This is just one of seven total mass shootings Obama has addressed in the past seven years. Vox compiled cuts from those seven speeches together into one video that shows America’s experience through these tragedies, written right on Obama’s face.
“It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that lead to this tragedy,’’ Obama said in 2009 after the Fort Hood, Texas shooting. A U.S. Army major and psychiatrist fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others.
“We’ve seen the national conversation commence, not only about the motivations behind these killings but about everything form the merits of gun safety laws to the adequacy of our mental health system,’’ he said in 2011 after six people died in the Tucson, Arizona shooting.
Newtown, Connecticut 2011. Aurora, Colorado 2012. Washington, DC 2013. Fort Hood, Texas 2014. More than 80 people killed and hundred injured.
Seven shootings in seven years. Seven distraught, heartbreaking, and eerily-similar speeches from Obama.
Charleston Church shooting in pictures
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