Former President Barack Obama released a statement Monday in the aftermath of the mass shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend.

After expressing his family’s condolences for the victims of the attacks, Obama said, “no other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shootings that we see int he United State. No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do.”

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