WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.
President Barack Obama, reacting to Republican presidential candidate
Jeb Bush's comment about a mass shooting in Oregon that "stuff happens,"
said on Friday the American people should make up their own minds
whether the comment was appropriate.
"I don't even think I have to react to that one. I think
the American people should hear that and make their own judgments based
on the fact that every couple of months we have a mass shooting and ...
they can decide whether they consider that stuff happening," Obama told a
news conference at the White House.
Speaking earlier at an event in Greenville, South
Carolina, about Thursday's Oregon shooting in which nine people were
killed, Bush said: "Look, stuff happens, there’s always a crisis and the
impulse is always to do something, and it’s not necessarily the right
thing to do.”
