President Barack Obama said Sunday that the United States "can't accept" last week's killing of 12 people at Washington's Navy Yard as "inevitable," but the shooting should instead "lead to some sort of transformation" on gun violence in the United States. "It ought to be a shock to all of us, as a nation and as a people," Obama said at the Marine Barracks, just a few short blocks from the Navy Yard. "It ought to obsess us. It ought to lead to some sort of transformation." The president said during his speech that grieving with the families impacted by mass shootings is something he has had to do five times in his presidency, citing shootings in Fort Hood, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; Aurora, Colorado; Newtown, Connecticut; and now the Washington Navy Yard.
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Obama says U.S. "can't accept" killing of 12 at D.C.'s Navy Yard as "inevitable"
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"It ought to be a shock to all of us, as a nation and as a people," Obama says
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Obama honors each victim, noting some of the last things they said before they died
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"Our tears are not enough," Obama tells families of those killed
"What wears on us, what troubles us so deeply as we gather here today, is how this senseless violence that took place in the @placeholder, echoes other recent tragedies."