Last night, President Obama addressed the nation in response to the bombing at the Boston Marathon earlier this week that led to a manhunt for the suspects.
With Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead, and the second suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev now in custody, America, and especially Boston, can rest more easily.
Obama made a memorable speech to U.S. citizens, bringing up the shooting in Newtown in comparison to the Boston Marathon attack.
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He said in his speech:
So to change Washington, you, the American people, are going to have to sustain some passion about this. And when necessary, you’ve got to send the right people to Washington. And that requires strength, and it requires persistence.
And that’s the one thing that these families should have inspired in all of us. I still don’t know how they have been able to muster up the strength to do what they’ve doing over the last several weeks, last several months.
And I see this as just round one. When Newtown happened, I met with these families and I spoke to the community, and I said, something must be different right now. We’re going to have to change. That’s what the whole country said. Everybody talked about how we were going to change something to make sure this didn’t happen again, just like everybody talked about how we needed to do something after Aurora. Everybody talked about we needed change something after Tucson.
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After all of the attacks that our nation has faced this past year, the Boston bombings are just another wake-up call for our country to take action.
Check out Obama’s speech above.
