Before Lafayette Shooting, Obama Called Inability to Pass Gun Laws ‘Greatest Frustration’

In an interview yesterday, before the shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, President Obama told the BBC that the inability to get gun control laws passed has been his greatest frustration.

The president has been more vocal this year about the lack of new gun laws, saying in the wake of Charleston that reform is necessary and that such calls don’t “politicize” tragedy.

And yesterday, Obama said he has been “most frustrated by how “the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun safety laws, even in the face of repeated mass killings.”

He cited statistics on victims of gun violence and said he still hasn’t given up on trying to do something.

Watch the video below, via BBC:

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