&gt;Obama added that there were &quot;steps we can take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently,” he said. “We should come together in a bipartisan basis at every level of government to make these rare as opposed to normal.”<p>This is an astonishingly level-headed perspective. It&#x27;s not often you hear the United States President advocate the principle that terrorism is an unavoidable fact of life. It rather goes against the &quot;War On Terror&quot; narrative.