Comparing Trump and Obama reactions to mass shootings

The number of mass crimes in America means that the presidents - and the last Presidents more than most - have encountered the consequences.

Former President Obama has approached masses about 18 times during his administration, with some of his damaged notes just coming two years before the fatal shooting of this weekend in Las Vegas.

For Obama, it was shooting a community college in Roseburg, Oregon, where nine people were killed on October 1, 2015. And for President Trump, on Sunday, at a music concert in Las Vegas, where at least 59 people were killed and 527 others were injured.

While the massacres included deaths, first aid workers, and acts of heroism, the responses of the two presidents were very different.

The Roseburg shoots in 2015

Obama opened his comments in the press section and said, "There was another mass withdrawal in America."

"This means that there are more American families - mothers, fathers, children - whose lives have changed forever," he said.

Obama went on to talk about how the reaction of many people to masses has become almost routine and criticizes those who offer only words instead of actions.

"Our thoughts and prayers are not enough," he said. "It's not enough, it does not catch the sadness, the grief and the anger we should feel, and it does nothing to stop this massacre from coming elsewhere in America - next week or a few months from now. "

Of course, what is so routine is that someone, somewhere, will comment and say Obama has politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. Common phrase, "Obama said.

"If roads are dangerous, we repair them to reduce death sacrifices, we have seat belt laws because we know that it saves lives so that the notion that armed violence is somehow different, our freedom and our constitution prohibit modest regulation we use a deadly weapon when there are gun owners who respect all the laws of the law that can hunt and protect their families and can do anything "they make no sense under such regulations," he added,

Obama was not the only one to address.

Trump also joined the Roseburg shootings and shared his thoughts with ABC news striker George Stephanopoulos.

"No matter how you cut it, you have people with mental illness and they have problems and they will slip into the cracks," said Trump.

He further said that "the weapons laws have nothing to do with it," but said he would not be passive if he were president.

"It's not a gun, it's a mental illness, really, and I'm very, very strong." And again, politically correct, oh, we will solve the problem. no problem "Trump said in 2015.

Reaction to last shot

Trump made an explanation from the White House Diplomatic Chamber the morning after the Las Vegas shooting, which hit a slightly different tone.

He called the shooting "an act of pure wickedness," thanked the first responder and offered condolences to the victims.

"Hundreds of our fellow citizens now mourn the sudden loss of a loved one - a parent, a child, a brother or a sister," the President said. "We can not imagine their grief, we can not imagine their loss." We pray for you and we are there for you, and we ask God to help you through this very dark time. "

Trump quoted the scripture, ordered the federal flag to be transported to half of the staff, and announced that he would travel to Nevada two days later.

He has no reference to gun laws or measures to prevent masses shooting again.

"In times like this, I know we are looking for some sort of meaning in chaos, a kind of light in the dark," he said. "The answers are not easy, but we can comfort ourselves by knowing that even the darkest space can be illuminated by a single light, and even the most terrible despair can be illuminated by a single ray of hope."

The next day, Trump gave his formal statement asked by reporters this morning whether the shooting of Las Vegas, which is now the deadliest in the modern history of the United States, would prompt him to pass laws controlling the shotguns.

"We will talk about weapon laws over time," Trump said.