Obama on Jeb Bush: ‘I Don’t Even Have to React to that One’

KARL: "Back in July you said the gun issue has been the most frustrating of your presidency. And we certainly heard that frustration from you last night." 
OBAMA: "Yep." 
KARL: "So in the last 15 months of your presidency, do you intend to do anything differently to get Congress to act or to do something about this gun violence problem? I have to get you to respond to something that Jeb Bush just said, and to be fair to governor bush I want to read it directly." 
OBAMA: "Okay." 
KARL: "Asked about the drive to take action in light of what happened in Oregon. He said, look, stuff happens. There's always a crisis. And the impulse is always to do something and it's not always the right thing to do. How would you react to Governor Bush?" 
OBAMA: "I don't even think I have to react to that one. I think the American people should hear that and make their own judgments based on the fact that every couple of months we have a mass shooting. And in terms of -- and they can decide whether they consider that stuff happening. In terms of what I can do, I've asked my team as I have in the past to scrub what kinds of authorities do we have to enforce the laws that we have in place more effectively to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, are there additional actions we can take that might prevent even a handful of these tragic deaths from taking place. But, as I said last night, this will not change until the politics changes and the behavior of elected officials changes. And so the main thing I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about this on a regular basis. And I will politicize it because our inaction is a political decision that we are making. The reason that Congress does not support even the modest gun safety laws that we proposed after Sandy Hook is not because the majority of the American people don't support it. I mean, normally politicians are responsive to the views of the electorate. Here you've got majority of the American people think it's the right thing to do. Background checks. Other common sense steps that would maybe save some lives, couldn't even get a full vote. And why is that? It's because of politics. It's because of interest groups fund campaigns, feed people fear, and in fairness it's not just in the Republican party although the Republican Party's ..."