In a brief but pointed Facebook post, country music star Ronnie Dunn took exception to President Obama’s anti-gun remarks, writing "the worst mass murder in American history attributed to ISIS and Obama steps up to the microphone and implies that it will stop if guns are taken away."
Dunn was reacting to Obama’s remarks delivered hours after the Orlando terrorist attack, who pivoted mid-speech to levy criticisms of the gun industry immediately after a national tragedy.
"This massacre is, therefore, a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub," Obama said. "And to actively do nothing is a decision as well."
Dunn said he found Obama’s quick blame to be weak leadership, offering up a hypothetical: "So, a law is passed and we are ordered to turn our guns in […] I bet criminals and "terrorists" / Jihadists will rush to turn their guns in […] now, that's leadership. UNBELIEVABLE."
While Obama blamed access to guns, he was more hesitant in discussing the ideology behind the shooter, refusing to name ISIS or radical Islam, and mentioning "terrorism" only once.
Domestic terrorists have not solely relied upon guns to conduct their attacks. The Tsarnaev brothers used pressure cookers packed with explosives and shrapnel to bomb the 2013 Boston Marathon. Timothy McVeigh used a van packed with homemade explosives to level the face of a building in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.