The president is “saddened by what has happened,” Gibbs said. (ap)
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs informed President Obama of the shooting at the Holocaust Museum this afternoon. Gibbs said Obama asked about the condition of the security guard involved, and is receiving regular updates on the incident from the FBI and Homeland Security.
“I walked in and told him there had been a shooting at the museum,” Gibbs said. Obama is “obviously concerned, and concern for the security guard that appears to have been hurt. I gave him mostly a factual briefing of the facts as we knew it, or knew them at that point, and that’s about it. Obviously, (he is) saddened by what — what has happened.”
Asked about a possible trend in domestic violence — in light of the Tiller shooting and the recent shooting at a military recruitment center, Gibbs declined to speculate.
“I would want to ask somebody in law enforcement if they see links such as that. I don’t think it would be wise for me to surmise something like that.
I think, as the president said in his statement after the shooting of Dr. Tiller , that regardless of disagreeing or disparate viewpoints, that, obviously, in our society, this is not in any way the type of action that anybody wants to see in settling even the most vehement disputes.
But I — it’s hard for me to surmise without having a more in- depth conversation with law enforcement.”
