NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 24: Former President Barack Obama speaks in support of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden during a drive-in rally on October 24, 2020 in North Miami, Florida. Mr. Obama is campaigning for his former Vice President before the Nov. 3rd election. (Image: Getty)
Former President Barack Obama released a statement on Tuesday condemning recent mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado and Atlanta, Georgia saying the killings and others are the result of “disaffection, racism and misogyny.”
“It will take time to root out the disaffection, racism and misogyny that fuels so many of these senseless acts of violence. But we can make it harder for those with hate in their hearts to buy weapons of war,” Obama said in his statement released on Twitter Tuesday.
“We can overcome opposition by cowardly politicians and the pressure of a gun lobby that opposes any limit on the ability of anyone to assemble an arsenal. We can, and we must. A once-in-a-century pandemic cannot be the only thing that slows mass shootings in this country,” the former president continued.
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