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Obama decries ‘routine’ response of country to shootings

A grim President Barack Obama says the U.S. has “become numb” to mass shootings like Thursday’s incident in Oregon, where a 20-year-old gunman killed at least 9 people at Umpqua Community College.

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Obama decries 'routine' response of country to shootings
President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, about the shooting at the community college in Oregon. The shooting happened at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., about 180 miles south of Portland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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