Obama: ‘Our Politics Have Conspired’ to Make It Easy for a Terrorist to Buy Assault Weapons

“The motives of this killer may have been different than the mass shooters in Aurora or Newtown. But the instruments of death were so similar. And now another 49 innocent people are dead. Another 53 are injured. Some are still fighting for their lives. Some will have wounds that will last a lifetime. We can’t anticipate or catch every single deranged person that may wish to do harm to his neighbors or his friends or co-workers or strangers. But we can do something about the amount of damage that they do. 

Unfortunately, our politics have conspired to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or just a disturbed individual like those in Aurora and Newtown, to buy extraordinarily powerful weapons and they can do so legally."