efforts to defeat the islamic state. the issues he raised that were new, gun control, wouldn t have stopped the attack. it wouldn t have in any way stopped any attacks he could point to involving jihadist terrorism. they rnt with weren t on a watc. the fact that you can take away rights because they were on a list has too many people on it. many are on there for no good reason. i think the president made things more difficult. i think instead of using this as an opportunity to build bipartson consensus, which he needs to do, because polls show his handling slipping with the islamic state, giving the american people a lecture on how to treat each other wasn t helpful. we have presidential kand candidates willing to take any number of steps to limit the