In a recent interview, former President Barack Obama lamented America's pro-gun culture and expressed his desire that the country implement gun control like Australia.
He claimed,"Somehow – and there are a lot of historical reasons for this – gun ownership in this country became a ideological and a partisan issue in ways that it shouldn’t be. It has become sort of a proxy for arguments about ourThe former president continued, saying,"Instead of thinking about it in a very pragmatic way, we end up really arguing about identity and emotion and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe.
Speaking of"culture wars," Obama mentioned the division in the country driven by"splintered media" elsewhere in the interview. After Burleson asked,"What keeps you up at night?" Obama responded,"The thing that I’m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media."
After noting how Americans only had"three TV stations" for news when he was young, he said,"Today what I’m most concerned about is the fact that, because of the splintering of the media, we almost occupy different realities." Obama argued,"gun ownership in this country became a ideological and a partisan issue in ways that it shouldn’t be."He added,"If something happens, in the past everybody could say, ‘Alright we may disagree on how to solve it, but at least we all agree that that’s an issue.’ Now people will say, ‘Well that didn’t happen,’ or ‘I don’t believe that.
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