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TIME Raw: Obama on San Bernardino Shooting_ by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 15, 2015 3:43 AM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 15, 2015 3:43 AM UTC President Obama’s top advisers held a series of meetings Monday with Muslim and Sikh religious leaders to discuss the fallout their communities are facing in the wake of the deadly San Bernardino shootings. Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, Domestic Policy Council director Cecilia Munoz, and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes took part in the White House sit-downs — a dozen days after a radicalized Muslim couple fatally shot 14 people and wounded 21 more in California. The Chicago-born Syed Farood and his wife Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani national raised in Saudi Arabia, were killed in a gun battle with the police… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/white-house-holds-meeting-muslims-sikhs-n479896?cid=par-time%5F20151215) ## Transcript And we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world. And there are some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings. But to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently. Common sense gun safety laws Stronger background checks and for those who are concerned about terrorism. Some may be aware of the fact that we have a no fly list where people can't get on planes. But those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm, and theirs nothing we can do to stop them. That's a law that needs to be changed. And so, my hope is that we're able to contain this particular shooting. And we don't yet know what the motives of the shooters are. But what we do know is that there are steps we can take to make Americans safer. And that we should come together in a bipartisan basis that every level of government to make these rare as opposed to normal. 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