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A few hours ago, President Obama
stood with parents who lost children in the Newtown tragedy and said:
"All in all, today was a pretty shameful day for Washington."
That's because a minority of
senators blocked legislation that would have made America safer and
better protected our kids. Forty-five lawmakers stood in the way of
improvements to the background check system that would keep guns out of
the hands of violent criminals and the mentally unstable -- something
that 90 percent of Americans support.
-- The President's Remarks --
A few months ago, in response to
too many tragedies -- including the shootings of a United States
Congresswoman, Gabby Giffords, who's here today, and the murder of 20
innocent schoolchildren and their teachers -- this country took up the
cause of protecting more of our people from gun violence.
Families that know unspeakable
grief summoned the courage to petition their elected leaders -- not just
to honor the memory of their children, but to protect the lives of all
our children. And a few minutes ago, a minority in the United States
Senate decided it wasn't worth it. They blocked common-sense gun reforms
even while these families looked on from the Senate gallery.
By now, it's well known that 90
percent of the American people support universal background checks that
make it harder for a dangerous person to buy a gun. We're talking about
convicted felons, people convicted of domestic violence, people with a
severe mental illness. Ninety percent of Americans support that idea.
Most Americans think that's already the law.
And a few minutes ago, 90 percent
of Democrats in the Senate just voted for that idea. But it's not going
to happen because 90 percent of Republicans in the Senate just voted
against that idea.
A majority of senators voted
"yes" to protecting more of our citizens with smarter background checks.
But by this continuing distortion of Senate rules, a minority was able
to block it from moving forward.
I'm going to speak plainly and
honestly about what's happened here because the American people are
trying to figure out how can something have 90 percent support and yet
not happen. We had a Democrat and a Republican -– both gun owners, both
fierce defenders of our Second Amendment, with "A" grades from the NRA
-- come together and worked together to write a common-sense compromise
on background checks. And I want to thank Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey for
their courage in doing that. That was not easy given their traditional
strong support for Second Amendment rights.
As they said, nobody could
honestly claim that the package they put together infringed on our
Second Amendment rights. All it did was extend the same background check
rules that already apply to guns purchased from a dealer to guns
purchased at gun shows or over the Internet. So 60 percent of guns are
already purchased through a background check system; this would have
covered a lot of the guns that are currently outside that system.
Their legislation showed respect
for gun owners, and it showed respect for the victims of gun violence.
And Gabby Giffords, by the way, is both -- she's a gun owner and a
victim of gun violence. She is a Westerner and a moderate. And she
supports these background checks.
In fact, even the NRA used to support expanded background checks. The
current leader of the NRA used to support these background checks. So
while this compromise didn't contain everything I wanted or everything
that these families wanted, it did represent progress. It represented
moderation and common sense. That's why 90 percent of the American
people supported it.
But instead of supporting this
compromise, the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill.
They claimed that it would create some sort of "big brother" gun
registry, even though the bill did the opposite. This legislation, in
fact, outlawed any registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text.
But that didn't matter.
And unfortunately, this pattern
of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose, because
those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners, and that in turn
intimidated a lot of senators. And I talked to several of these senators
over the past few weeks, and they're all good people. I know all of
them were shocked by tragedies like Newtown. And I also understand that
they come from states that are strongly pro-gun. And I have consistently
said that there are regional differences when it comes to guns, and
that both sides have to listen to each other.
But the fact is most of these
senators could not offer any good reason why we wouldn't want to make it
harder for criminals and those with severe mental illnesses to buy a
gun. There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn't do this. It
came down to politics -- the worry that that vocal minority of gun
owners would come after them in future elections. They worried that the
gun lobby would spend a lot of money and paint them as anti-Second
Amendment.
And obviously, a lot of
Republicans had that fear, but Democrats had that fear, too. And so they
caved to the pressure, and they started looking for an excuse -- any
excuse -- to vote "no."
One common argument I heard was that this legislation wouldn't
prevent all future massacres. And that's true. As I said from the start,
no single piece of legislation can stop every act of violence and evil.
We learned that tragically just two days ago. But if action by Congress
could have saved one person, one child, a few hundred, a few thousand
-- if it could have prevented those people from losing their lives to
gun violence in the future while preserving our Second Amendment rights,
we had an obligation to try.
And this legislation met that test. And too many senators failed theirs.
I've heard some say that blocking
this step would be a victory. And my question is, a victory for who? A
victory for what? All that happened today was the preservation of the
loophole that lets dangerous criminals buy guns without a background
check. That didn't make our kids safer. Victory for not doing something
that 90 percent of Americans, 80 percent of Republicans, the vast
majority of your constituents wanted to get done? It begs the question,
who are we here to represent?
I've heard folks say that having
the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow
misplaced. "A prop," somebody called them. "Emotional blackmail," some
outlet said. Are they serious? Do we really think that thousands of
families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don't have a
right to weigh in on this issue? Do we think their emotions, their loss
is not relevant to this debate?
So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.
But this effort is not over. I
want to make it clear to the American people we can still bring about
meaningful changes that reduce gun violence, so long as the American
people don't give up on it. Even without Congress, my administration
will keep doing everything it can to protect more of our communities.
We're going to address the barriers that prevent states from
participating in the existing background check system. We're going to
give law enforcement more information about lost and stolen guns so it
can do its job. We're going to help to put in place emergency plans to
protect our children in their schools.
But we can do more if Congress gets its act together. And if this
Congress refuses to listen to the American people and pass common-sense
gun legislation, then the real impact is going to have to come from the
voters.
To all the people who supported this legislation -- law enforcement
and responsible gun owners, Democrats and Republicans, urban moms, rural
hunters, whoever you are -- you need to let your representatives in
Congress know that you are disappointed, and that if they don't act this
time, you will remember come election time.
To the wide majority of NRA households who supported this
legislation, you need to let your leadership and lobbyists in Washington
know they didn't represent your views on this one.
The point is those who care
deeply about preventing more and more gun violence will have to be as
passionate, and as organized, and as vocal as those who blocked these
common-sense steps to help keep our kids safe. Ultimately, you outnumber
those who argued the other way. But they're better organized. They're
better financed. They've been at it longer. And they make sure to stay
focused on this one issue during election time. And that's the reason
why you can have something that 90 percent of Americans support and you
can't get it through the Senate or the House of Representatives.
So to change Washington, you, the American people, are going to have
to sustain some passion about this. And when necessary, you've got to
send the right people to Washington. And that requires strength, and it
requires persistence.
And that's the one thing that
these families should have inspired in all of us. I still don't know how
they have been able to muster up the strength to do what they've doing
over the last several weeks, last several months.
And I see this as just round one.
When Newtown happened, I met with these families and I spoke to the
community, and I said, something must be different right now. We're
going to have to change. That's what the whole country said. Everybody
talked about how we were going to change something to make sure this
didn't happen again, just like everybody talked about how we needed to
do something after Aurora. Everybody talked about we needed change
something after Tucson.
And I'm assuming that the
emotions that we've all felt since Newtown, the emotions that we've all
felt since Tucson and Aurora and Chicago -- the pain we share with these
families and families all across the country who've lost a loved one to
gun violence -- I'm assuming that's not a temporary thing. I'm assuming
our expressions of grief and our commitment to do something different
to prevent these things from happening are not empty words.
I believe we're going to be able
to get this done. Sooner or later, we are going to get this right. The
memories of these children demand it. And so do the American people.
Thank you very much, everybody.
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