There's been another mass shooting in America -- this time, in a community college in Oregon. 美国又发生了一起大规模枪击事件——这一次是在俄勒冈州的一所社区学院。
That means there are more American families -- moms, dads, children -- whose lives have been changed forever. That means there's another community stunned with grief, and communities across the country forced to relieve their own anguish, and parents across the country who are scared because they know it might have been their families or their children. 这意味着更多美国家庭——母亲、父亲、孩子——他们的生活被永远改变了。这意味着又一个社区被悲痛所震惊，全国各地的社区被迫重温他们自己的痛苦，而全国各地的父母都感到恐惧，因为他们知道这原本可能是他们的家人或他们的孩子。
I've been to Roseburg, Oregon. There are really good people there. I want to thank all the first responders whose bravery likely saved some lives today. Federal law enforcement has been on the scene in a supporting role, and we've offered to stay and help as much as Roseburg needs, for as long as they need. 我去过俄勒冈州的罗斯堡。那里有非常善良的人们。我要感谢所有的急救人员，他们的英勇今天很可能挽救了一些人的生命。联邦执法人员一直在现场提供协助，我们已经提出愿意留下来，在罗斯堡需要的时候提供尽可能多的帮助，无论需要多久。
In the coming days, we'll learn about the victims -- young men and women who were studying and learning and working hard, their eyes set on the future, their dreams on what they could make of their lives. And America will wrap everyone who's grieving with our prayers and our love. 在接下来的日子里，我们将了解受害者的情况——那些正在学习、努力工作的年轻男女，他们着眼于未来，梦想着自己能创造怎样的人生。美国将用我们的祈祷和关爱，包围每一位正在悲痛中的人。
But as I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It's not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America -- next week, or a couple of months from now. 但正如我几个月前所说，正如我再几个月前所说，正如每次我们看到这种大规模枪击事件时我所说的，我们的思念和祈祷是不够的。这是不够的。它无法表达我们应该感受到的心痛、悲伤和愤怒。而且它完全无法阻止这种屠杀在美国其他地方重演——也许下周，也许几个月后。
We don't yet know why this individual did what he did. And it's fair to say that anybody who does this has a sickness in their minds, regardless of what they think their motivations may be. But we are not the only country on Earth that has people with mental illnesses or want to do harm to other people. We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months. 我们还不知道这个人为什么要这样做。可以公平地说，任何做出这种事的人思想上都有病，无论他们认为自己的动机是什么。但我们不是地球上唯一一个有精神疾病患者或有人想伤害他人的国家。我们是地球上唯一一个每隔几个月就会发生这种大规模枪击事件的发达国家。
Earlier this year, I answered a question in an interview by saying, "The United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun-safety laws -- even in the face of repeated mass killings." And later that day, there was a mass shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. That day! Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We've become numb to this. 今年早些时候，我在一次采访中回答了一个问题，我说："美利坚合众国是地球上唯一一个没有足够常识性枪支安全法律的发达国家——尽管发生了一再的大规模屠杀。" 那天晚些时候，路易斯安那州拉斐特的一家电影院就发生了大规模枪击事件。就在同一天！不知何故，这已经变成了常态。报道是常态。我在这个讲台上的回应也变成了常态。事件发生后的讨论也是常态。我们已经对此麻木了。
We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charleston. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. 我们在哥伦拜恩和布莱克斯堡事件后讨论过这个问题，在图森事件后，在纽敦事件后，在奥罗拉事件后，在查尔斯顿事件后都讨论过。一个想要伤害他人的人想要获得枪支，不应该这么容易。
And what's become routine, of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common-sense gun legislation. Right now, I can imagine the press releases being cranked out: We need more guns, they'll argue. Fewer gun safety laws. 当然，已经成为常态的还有那些反对任何常识性枪支立法的人的反应。现在，我可以想象他们正在炮制新闻稿：他们会说，我们需要更多的枪。更少的枪支安全法律。
Does anybody really believe that? There are scores of responsible gun owners in this country -- they know that's not true. We know because of the polling that says the majority of Americans understand we should be changing these laws -- including the majority of responsible, law-abiding gun owners. 有人真的相信这一点吗？这个国家有许许多多负责任的枪支拥有者——他们知道这不是真的。我们知道，因为民调显示，大多数美国人都明白我们应该修改这些法律——包括大多数负责任的、守法的枪支拥有者。
There is a gun for roughly every man, woman, and child in America. So how can you, with a straight face, make the argument that more guns will make us safer? We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths. So the notion that gun laws don't work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals will still get their guns is not borne out by the evidence. 美国几乎每个男人、女人和孩子都有一把枪。那么你怎么能板着脸说更多的枪会让我们更安全呢？我们知道，枪支法律最严格的州往往枪支死亡人数最少。所以那种认为枪支法律不起作用，或者只会让守法公民更难获得枪支而罪犯仍然能弄到枪的说法，是没有证据支持的。
We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours -- Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it. 我们知道，其他国家在发生一次大规模枪击事件后，就能够制定几乎消除大规模枪击的法律。我们的朋友、我们的盟友——英国、澳大利亚，和我们类似的国家。所以我们知道是有办法阻止的。
And, of course, what's also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic. 当然，同样司空见惯的是，某处总会有人评论说，奥巴马把这个问题政治化了。好吧，这是我们应该将其政治化的事情。它关系到我们的共同生活，关系到我们的政体。
I would ask news organizations -- because I won't put these facts forward -- have news organizations tally up the number of Americans who've been killed through terrorist attacks over the last decade and the number of Americans who've been killed by gun violence, and post those side-by-side on your news reports. This won't be information coming from me; it will be coming from you. 我想请新闻机构——因为我不会亲自公布这些数据——请新闻机构统计一下过去十年中死于恐怖袭击的美国人数量和死于枪支暴力的美国人数量，然后把这两个数字并排放在你们的新闻报道中。这些信息不会来自我；它将来自你们。
We spend over a trillion dollars, and pass countless laws, and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so. And yet, we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially reduce gun deaths. How can that be? 我们花费了超过一万亿美元，通过了无数法律，投入了整个机构来防止我们国土上的恐怖袭击，这是理所当然的。然而，我们的国会却明确阻止我们甚至收集关于如何可能减少枪支死亡的数据。这怎么可能？
This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction. When Americans are killed in mine disasters, we work to make mines safer. When Americans are killed in floods and hurricanes, we make communities safer. When roads are unsafe, we fix them to reduce auto fatalities. We have seatbelt laws because we know it saves lives. 这是一个政治选择，是我们选择让这种事情每隔几个月就在美国发生。我们集体要对那些因我们的不作为而失去亲人的家庭负责。当美国人死于矿难时，我们努力让矿山更安全。当美国人死于洪水和飓风时，我们让社区更安全。当道路不安全时，我们修复它们以减少交通事故死亡。我们有安全带法，因为我们知道它能拯救生命。
So the notion that gun violence is somehow different, that our freedom and our Constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon, when there are law-abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt and protect their families and do everything they do under such regulations doesn't make sense. 所以那种认为枪支暴力 somehow 不同，我们的自由和宪法禁止对我们如何使用致命武器进行任何适度监管的说法，当全国各地都有守法的枪支拥有者，他们可以在这样的法规下狩猎、保护家人、做他们所有的事情时，这种说法是说不通的。
So, tonight, as those of us who are lucky enough to hug our kids a little closer are thinking about the families who aren't so fortunate, I'd ask the American people to think about how they can get our government to change these laws, and to save lives, and to let young people grow up. 所以，今晚，当我们这些有幸能更紧地拥抱自己孩子的人正在想那些不那么幸运的家庭时，我想请美国人民思考一下，他们如何能让我们的政府修改这些法律，拯救生命，让年轻人成长。
And that will require a change of politics on this issue. And it will require that the American people, individually, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican or an independent, when you decide to vote for somebody, are making a determination as to whether this cause of continuing death for innocent people should be a relevant factor in your decision. If you think this is a problem, then you should expect your elected officials to reflect your views. 这需要在这个问题上改变政治。这需要美国人民每个人，无论你是民主党人、共和党人还是独立人士，当你决定投票给谁时，都要做出判断：这种无辜人民持续死亡的现象是否应该成为你决定中的一个相关因素。如果你认为这是个问题，那么你应该期望你选出的官员反映你的观点。
And I would particularly ask America's gun owners -- who are using those guns properly, safely, to hunt, for sport, for protecting their families -- to think about whether your views are properly being represented by the organization that suggests it's speaking for you. 我特别想请美国的枪支拥有者——那些正当、安全地使用枪支，用于狩猎、运动、保护家人的人——思考一下，你们的观点是否得到了那个声称代表你们的组织的正确代表。
And each time this happens I'm going to bring this up. Each time this happens I am going to say that we can actually do something about it, but we're going to have to change our laws. And this is not something I can do by myself. I've got to have a Congress and I've got to have state legislatures and governors who are willing to work with me on this. 每次发生这种事，我都会提起这个问题。每次发生这种事，我都会说我们实际上可以为此做些什么，但我们必须修改我们的法律。这不是我一个人能做到的。我需要国会，我需要州议会，我需要愿意与我合作的州长们。
I hope and pray that I don't have to come out again during my tenure as President to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances. But based on my experience as President, I can't guarantee that. And that's terrible to say. 我希望并祈祷，在我的总统任期内，我不必再在这种情况下出来向这些家庭表示慰问。但根据我作为总统的经验，我不能保证这一点。这么说真是令人难过。
And it can change. 而这是可以改变的。
May God bless the memories of those who were killed today. May He bring comfort to their families, and courage to the injured as they fight their way back. And may He give us the strength to come together and find the courage to change. 愿上帝保佑今天遇难者的在天之灵。愿他给他们的家人带来安慰，给伤者带来勇气，帮助他们渡过难关。愿他赐予我们团结起来的力量，找到改变的勇气。
Thank you. 谢谢大家。
