We need common-sense gun laws, common-sense gender equality and religious pluralism and common-sense privacy laws. Obama closed his speech at Hiroshima with words that could easily have been said of Orlando: “Those who died, they are like us. I’ve lived too long in the Muslim world, and experienced the decency of Muslim communities, to believe that this is the essence of Islam. If you Republican senators and congressmen support Trump for president, he will own you — and you will own everything he does. But that takes common-sense leaders, not ones who think the complexities of this age can be bombed away, walled away, willed away or insulted away.

Source: New York Times June 15, 2016 07:21 UTC