The usual regime response; the bemoaning of common sense and logic in favour of continued government ineptitude and failure.
On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the FBI did 175,754 background checks, part of the seventh consecutive record-breaking month in gun purchases. Gun rights experts told the Free Beacon that recent terrorist attacks and the Democratic push for more gun control have fueled this surge.
"I wonder if the president feels as if what's happened may actually be giving motivation or momentum to gun rights advocates rather than his position?" NBC reporter Chris Jansing asked.
"Well, I guess there is some evidence to indicate this," Earnest said. "The FBI put out information a week or so ago that [on] Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many people go shopping, they actually processed the largest number of background checks for gun purchases in history. I described this, I think, at a briefing earlier this week as a tragic irony, that the more that we see this kind of violence on our streets, the more people go out and buy guns, and that is both ironic and tragic.