President Obama met on Friday night with family members of those killed in the shooting massacre here this month, saying he had been moved by their conversations and inspired by the families’ determination that something positive come from the tragedy.
For about three hours, Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, moved around the library talking in turn to relatives of each of the 14 people killed in the Dec. 2 massacre. The Obamas, who stopped here on their way to a two-week holiday vacation with their daughters in Hawaii, offered condolences to the families and asked about those who were killed. They also met with emergency responders.
“Even as we are vigilant about preventing terrorist attacks from happening, even as we insist that we can’t accept the notion of mass shootings in public places and places of work and worship, we have to remind ourselves of the overwhelming good that exists out there,” Mr. Obama said. The families, he added, “could not have been more inspiring and more proud of their loved ones or more insistent that something good comes out of this tragedy.”
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