As the country opens back up, it seems the mass shooters are coming back out in droves once again as well. Yesterday, a mass shooting at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store left ten people dead, and while the whole of the GOP is pretty well silent about the killings, former President Barack Obama is not.
Obama released a powerful statement on his official Facebook page regarding the shooting and seemed to take a thinly-veiled jab at the Republican politicians who have continued to facilitate such violence.
“Michelle and I grieve with the families of the victims of the shooting in Boulder, just as we grieve with the families of the people killed in Atlanta and everyone else who has lost a loved one to gun violence,” former President Obama’s statement reads. “Because in addition to grief, we are also feeling a deep, familiar outrage that we as a nation continue to tolerate these kinds of random, senseless acts day in and day out without taking any significant action—an outrage that people in Colorado have known far too often over the years.”
He went on to say that the American people should be able to do something as simple as going shopping “without wondering if the next trip outside our home could be our last.”
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“We should. But in America, we can’t,” he explained. “It is long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so.”
“It will take time to root out the disaffection, racism, and misogyny that fuels so many of these senseless acts of violence. But we can make it harder for those with hate in their hearts to buy weapons of war,” the former president added. “We can overcome opposition by cowardly politicians and the pressure of a gun lobby that opposes any limit on the ability of anyone to assemble an arsenal. We can, and we must.”
You can read former President Obama’s full statement here:
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