By Charles M. Blow – New York Times.

An exasperated — and frustrated — President Obama said of the gun massacre last week in Oregon:

“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We have become numb to this.”

Obama continued:

“What’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere, will comment and say ‘Obama politicized this issue.’ Well this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic.”Read more »