News of a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday prompted calls for stricter gun laws from across the country. At an afternoon briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that gun control is a “top priority” of the Obama Administration, but that the president is “quite realistic that we’ll need to see a fundamental change in terms of the way the American people communicate this priority to Congress before we’ll see a different outcome in the legislative process.” “The president has been quite candid about how this is and has been a source of frustration for him,” Earnest said. Frustration seemed to be the...
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