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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts) Fri Oct 9, 2015, 11:36 PM Oct 2015

With enough shootings, every comment about gun control can be dismissed as "exploiting a tragedy"

Obama Consoles Families in Oregon Amid 2 More Campus Shootings
ROSEBURG, Ore. — President Obama on Friday flew into this .. town .. to give solace to grieving families, but politics and two more deadly shootings on college campuses threatened to intrude ...
By GARDINER HARRIS
OCT. 9, 2015

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With enough shootings, every comment about gun control can be dismissed as "exploiting a tragedy" (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2015 OP

Being president is not easy yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #1

Yep, and if you have one every couple of days... Wounded Bear Oct 2015 #2

Yeah well THEIR comments can be said to be "dismissing a tragedy" eom LiberalElite Oct 2015 #3

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. Being president is not easy

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 11:41 PM

Oct 2015

You start with half not supporting you no matter who is president. I can't imagine it's a fun job which is why only 45 people out of billions have made it.

Wounded Bear

(58,605 posts)

2. Yep, and if you have one every couple of days...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 11:51 PM

Oct 2015

it is never the 'right time' to discuss it while people are still grieving.