Former President Barack Obama offered a rare criticism of government leadership in a tweet posted Monday afternoon, in the wake of the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which took place within 15 hours of one another.
"We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don't look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as subhuman or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people," he wrote.
Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama offered their condolences to the families affected in the statement as well. As these two mass shootings have sparked the all-too-familiar debate on gun control, former President Bill Clinton also commented.
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