US president Barack Obama angrily said on Thursday America had made a “political choice” to allow mass shootings like the one in Oregon to occur and blasted the National Rifle Association (NRA)lobby group for blocking reform of US gun laws. Appearing in the White House briefing room with a grim expression and a frustrated tone, Obama challenged US voters of all political stripes to hold their leaders accountable if they wanted to prevent such tragedies from happening again. “This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months in America,” Mr Obama told reporters after the latest shooting at a community college in an Oregon town in which nine people were killed...
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