Barack Obama's emotional evolution on gun control
- 8 years ago
The Mr. Cool in the Oval Office rarely shows emotion.
But on one issue guns President Barack Obama lets the public mask slip, revealing the ire boiling within.
"We've become numb to this," Obama complained in October, his voice dripping with disbelief and frustration after yet another mass killing.
Before the cameras, moved by the massacres of innocents that have punctuated his presidency, Obama has wept, his voice has cracked, he's visibly shaken with frustration, he's lashed out at lawmakers he sees as cowards and even led a congregation in "Amazing Grace."
Evolving through a cycle of sadness, poleaxing grief, frustration and outright fury, Obama has even offered hints of self-recrimination at his own earlier failure to touch the perfidious politics of gun control himself.
But on one issue guns President Barack Obama lets the public mask slip, revealing the ire boiling within.
"We've become numb to this," Obama complained in October, his voice dripping with disbelief and frustration after yet another mass killing.
Before the cameras, moved by the massacres of innocents that have punctuated his presidency, Obama has wept, his voice has cracked, he's visibly shaken with frustration, he's lashed out at lawmakers he sees as cowards and even led a congregation in "Amazing Grace."
Evolving through a cycle of sadness, poleaxing grief, frustration and outright fury, Obama has even offered hints of self-recrimination at his own earlier failure to touch the perfidious politics of gun control himself.