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Barack Obama: “The fact that we live in a country in which routinely…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama Discusses Leadership, Democracy, and AI at Hamilton College

Published | Video Starts at 15:10

We had a photo line backstage, and a woman mentioned that she had been in Sandy Hook, Newtown right after I had been elected to my second term. The fact that we live in a country in which routinely children are killed, are shot, that doesn't make sense to me. Hunting, I understand hunting. I understand shooting for sport, or I understand wanting to have a firearm for protection potentially at home. (15:10–15:28)

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Asserts that children are routinely killed by gun violence in the United States.

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