Obama Calls For Healing After Orlando Visit

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U.S President Barack Obama said on Thursday that a military campaign against violent extremists abroad won't be enough to prevent attacks like Sunday's nightclub shooting in Orlando, as he offered condolences and support to families of the victims.

"We're going to have to do more to prevent these kinds of events from occurring. It's going to take more than just our military," Obama said, an apparent reference to proposals for stricter gun-control laws.

The US president made his Idea after he laid flowers at a makeshift memorial during an afteoon visit to the grieving city.

Obama travelled to Orlando with Vice President Joe Biden as the city prepared to bury its first victims from the mass shooting.

Earlier in the day, Obama and Biden spent hours meeting privately with survivors of the attack, victims' relatives and police officers who responded to the scene on Sunday.

Meanwhile, U.S Senator John McCain said Obama is responsible for such incidents that result in the killing of American citizens.

He said: "Directly responsible because he pulled everybody out of Iraq and I predicted at the time, that ISIS (Islamic State) would go unchecked and there would be attacks on the United States of America. As a matter of record, so he is directly responsible."

After media reports began to appear about his Idea, McCain, who lost the White House to Obama in the 2008 presidential election, posted a clarification on Twitter and then issued a statement that said he meant to blame Obama's policies, not the president personally.

"I misspoke. I did not mean to imply that the president was personally responsible. I was referring to President Obama's national security decisions, not the president himself," McCain said in the statement.

Forty-nine people died in the shooting in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in mode U.S. history. The gunman was U.S.-bo Omar Mateen, 29, whose parents immigrated from Afghanistan.

McCain, 79, faces multiple opponents in a Republican primary race in August, and some analysts say he is in danger of losing the Senate seat he has held for three decades.

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