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In his statement following the deaths of 10 people and the wounding of seven from a mass-shooting in Roseland, Oregon, President Barack Obama made a request to the media.
In order to put into perspective the amount of deaths that gun violence brings to the US, a weary Obama requested that the media independently gather the following:
I would ask news organisations - because I won't put these facts forward - have news organisations tally up the number of Americans who’ve been killed through terrorist attacks over the last decade and the number of Americans who’ve been killed by gun violence, and post those side-by-side on your news reports.
This won't be information coming from me; it will be coming from you.
"This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loves ones because of our inaction. When Americans are killed in mine disasters, we work to make mines safer. When Americans are killed in floods and hurricanes, we make communities safer. When roads are unsafe, we fix them to reduce auto fatalities. We have seatbelt laws because we know it safes lives. The notion that gun violence is somehow different—that our freedom and our Constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon, when there are law-abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt, and protect their families, and do everything they do under such regulations—doesn't make sense." —President Obama on the shooting in Roseburg, Oregon: https://go.wh.gov/7Gk8Eh #UCCShooting
Posted by The White House on Thursday, 1 October 2015
The first to respond to this call, was Zach Beauchamp of Vox.
Beauchamp's efforts were acknowledged by the President.
We've asked Statista to produce a summary version of Beauchamp's chart of the statistics from between 2001 and 2011.
More:Here's what Obama has had to say after 11 mass shootings since he took office
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