Obama: To Honor Victims, We 'Have to Change'
by Jessica Gresko, Associated Press, abcnews.go.com -- Sep 23, 2013
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"If we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change," the president said.
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Obama said that when such tragedies strike, "it ought to be a shock to all of us, it ought to obsess us. It ought to lead to some sort of transformation."
But, he said, "nothing happens." Obama said he sometimes fears "there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this."
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He said Sunday that by now "it should be clear that the change we need will not come from Washington, even when tragedy strikes Washington."
"Change will come the only way it ever has come, and that's from the American people," he said.
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