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>> the president: but what we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other. [ applause ] >> the president: that we cannot do! [ applause ] >> the president: that we cannot do. as we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame. lets use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations. to listen to each other more carefully.

>> the president: but what we cannot do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other. [ applause ] >> the president: that we cannot do! [ applause ] >> the president: that we cannot do. as we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame. lets use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations. to listen to each other more carefully.

Assigning blame. lets use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations. to listen to each other more carefully. to sharpen our instincts for empathy. and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together. >> one of the heroes of the tucson shooting, daniel hernandez, the 20-year-old office intern who rushed to the aid of the fallen congresswoman. fernandez spoke movingly at the memorial service without any teleprompter or notes but with an incomparable modesty. list...

Night. speaking to the audience that didnt understand they were attending a memorial service. the president hit all the right points in defining the terrible atrocity that took place last saturday. first of all he addressed points. >> scripture tells us there is evil in the world and terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. in the work of job, when i looked for light and then came darkness. bad things happen. we have to guard against simple explanations in the aftermath....