Obama didn’t condone white supremacists and right wing extremists.

He called for sensible gun control and the GOP and NRA used that as a selling point to get racists and bigots and gun humpers to buy still more guns.

The guns are the problem. They’ve been the problem.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 6, 2019

Trump’s right back at the white supremacist racist crap, attacking Obama because Trump (correctly) deduced that Obama was talking about Trump and Trump’s racist actions.

Trump is a white supremacist, and Obama called him out for doing nothing in the face of gun violence in the US. It’s also another reminder that one of Trump’s first actions in the WH was to roll back an Obama rule that made it harder for those with mental illness to get guns by feeding SSI mental health info into the gun database used for background checks.

Trump made it easier for those with mental illness to get guns.

The GOP doesn’t want to provide health coverage for those with mental illness with their ongoing assault on the ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid. They continue their assault on those with preexisting medical conditions (mental health is a preexisting condition).

The GOP would rather focus on video games despite fact that US uses video games at a lower rate than Japan or South Korea - which have almost no gun violence at all, let alone few if any mass shootings.

Why?

It’s the easy availability of guns. The GOP/NRA don’t want to change the calculus. They didn’t change it after Scalise was nearly assassinated. They didn’t change it after Giffords was nearly assassinated. Heck, they fought changing the laws after Reagan was nearly assassinated. They refuse to act after Sandy Hook.

The GOP/NRA solution to every act of gun violence is to demand more gun sales. Hannity proposes putting armed guards at every school and mall. He wants a fascist police state, even though Texas and Ohio are open carry states where anyone could get guns. Guns didn’t deter either El Paso or Dayton mass shootings. Guns enabled them with easy access to weapons of mass murder.

Strong gun laws are the answer. States should follow the NY, CA, or MA gun laws, which help result in low gun death rates in those states. If every state adopted those rules - aka a national policy - we’d see far fewer gun deaths. We’d even see fewer mass shootings. Why? Because all the empirical evidence shows that strong gun laws prevent gun deaths.

And for those bots and gun humpers who point to Chicago as a failure of strong gun laws, that’s actually counterfactual.

Many of the guns used in crimes in Chicago Illinois come from out of state - where the gun laws are weaker. It’s actually the evidence that strong nationwide gun laws would reduce gun violence everywhere, including Chicago.