THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Another Tragedy...Another Debate Yesterday marked another tragedy in America with a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. The details remain unclear but it appears that the shooter, Christopher Mercer, was targeting Christians as part of his rampage. President Obama quickly arranged a news conference where he argued that these mass shootings are "something we should politicize" and "each time something like this happens I'm going to say there is something we can do about it." Referencing more spending on mental health support and stricter gun laws, Obama made an impassioned plea to Congress to act on some of his proposals. Most of the candidates took to twitter in a predictable way. Democrats like Martin O'Malley, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clamored for more gun control , while Republican candidates reflected on the families and offered prayers for the victims. Dr. Ben Carson was a bit more vocal, telling radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, "Well, obviously, there are going to be those who are going to be calling for gun control. But you know, that happens every time we have one of these incidents. Obviously, that's not the issue. The issue is the mentality of these people. And we need to be looking at the mentality of these individuals and seeing if there are any early warning clues that we can gather that will help us as a society to be able to identify these people ahead of time." As we all try and seek answers to these tragedies, the debate seems to have shifted from a "ban the guns" conversation to a more sensible discussion of meaningful reform and treatment. As with most important issues, the solution will not come from more government regulation but from the spirit of the American people who're tired of reading about these senseless tragedies. Fighting ISIS with Better Ideas? President Obama once again embarrassed America after he gave a speech at the U.N. earlier this week claiming we could fight ISIS with "better ideas." He also-predictably-shunned the concept of ISIS having anything to do with Islam and made sure everyone knew "violent extremism is not unique to any one faith." In a surprising twist, UK Prime Minister David Cameron rebuked Obama's naïve view of the Islamic group saying while Obama is right that violent extremism isn't unique to just one faith "...we have to be frank that the biggest problem we have today is the Islamist extremist violence that has given birth to ISIL, to al-Shabab, to al-Nusra, al Qaeda and so many other groups." Wouldn't it be nice if Obama could take a page out of Cameron's book?