In response to Tuesday's tragic shooting in Oregon, Piers Morgan used the one means of communication with the world he has as of late, Twitter, and turned his gun control frustrations on the "leader of the free world," who he blasted for failing to "get a damn thing done" about his own nation's problem:
After the Reynolds High School shooting Tuesday, the White House once again vowed that the president would bypass Congress to accomplish his agenda. In the daily news brief after Tuesday, White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest underscored the president's intention to look for "opportunities" to use his executive power to "make our communities safer":
"The president’s goal is to look for opportunities to act administratively, unilaterally using his executive authority to try to make our communities safer. We’re always looking for those opportunities."
In a Q&A on Tumblr Tuesday, the president said his “biggest frustration [as president] so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage. We're the only society, the only developed country on earth, where this happens and it happens now once a week, and it’s a one-day story.”
Though Obama vowed to look for opportunities for unilateral action, he insisted that the responsibility ultimately fell on the American people to "demand change":
As for the latest on Piers Morgan: He is supposed to be working on a series of "big name" interviews for CNN, but so far, he's been mostly confined to Twitter purgatory.
