Nation Reacts To CT Elementary School Shooting [VIDEO]

Twenty-six people were killed, 20 of them children, after a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooter, is also dead. A tearful President Obama addressed the nation Friday afternoon.

FOX News Radio’s Mike Majchrowitz reports from the White House:

Clearly struggling with the words — President Obama sought to bring comfort to a nation all too familiar with violence and tragedy.

(Obama) ?We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years.?

At times pausing for composure and wiping away a tear, the President shared the grief of the fellow parents who lost children on this dark day.

(Obama) ?I know there is not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.?

President Obama did not pursue gun control legislation in his first term, but in what may be a harbinger of things to come he said the nation must come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies regardless of politics.?

At the White House, Mike Majchrowitz, FOX News Radio.

LISTEN to President Barack Obama speak on the shooting: