Obama: I will keep pushing for more gun laws

President Barack Obama on Friday reiterated his calls for

more gun laws, pledging to keep pushing the issue and

saying his administration would look into ways it can better

enforce existing regulations in the wake of Thursday's

massacre at an Oregon college campus.

"I'm going to talk about this on a regular basis. And I will

politicize this. Because our inaction is a political decision

that we're making," Obama said during a White House press

conference. "Unless we change that political dynamic, we're

not going to be able to make a big dent in this problem."

Obama called on gun-control advocates to act as "single-

issue voters," punishing and rewarding politicians at the polls

on the topic.

"The people who are troubled by this have to be as intense

and organized and adamant about this issue as folks on the

other side who are absolutists, who think that any gun safety

measures are an assault on freedom, or communistic, or a

plot by me to take over and stay in power forever, or

something," he said.

The President also said he has asked his administration to

look into "what kinds of authorities do we have to enforce

the laws that we have in place more effectively to keep guns

out of the hands of criminals."

Obama's remarks Friday come one day after he bemoaned

another community traumatized by a mass killing.

"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 have become numb

to this," he complained on Thursday.

Nine people were killed when a gunman opened fire at

Oregon's Umpqua Community College. Seven other people

were injured, and the shooter was killed after exchanging

gunfire with authorities.

Also at Friday's press conference, Obama discussed ongoing

budget negotiations on Capitol Hill, saying he believes there's

an opportunity to arrive at a "reasonable agreement."

"Yes, Speaker (John) Boehner's decision to step down

complicates it, but I do think there's a path for us to come

up with a reasonable agreement for us to raise the spending

caps above sequester and properly finance both our defense

and non-defense needs, that maintains a prudent control of

our deficits, and we can do that in short order. It's not that

complicated," Obama said.

Obama also said he hoped "extraneous issues" -- a reference

to conservative calls to shut down the federal government

over its continued funding of Planned Parenthood -- wouldn't

interfere.

"The math is the math," Obama said. "What I've encouraged

is we get started on that work immediately and we push

through over the next several weeks and try to leave out

extraneous issues that may prevent us from getting a budget

agreement."