It would appear to me that Bush's comment was not about the shootings at the school but the way people react to such events. After stuff happens he mentions all kinds of crisis and what the people tend to do. It was not just focused on the school shootings. Poor chosen words maybe, but not focused at all on just the school shootings last week. He was talking in general of many types of crisis. Of course Obama does try to fit all shootings to be the things we need to look at.
I liked Obama's response as he said it is up to the people to decide, not him. Waiting to hear from the people, that will take some time to find out just how many folks will react to Bush's words. And in what manner will they react.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...-was-talking-about-when-he-said-stuff-n437876
Politics
Oct 2 2015, 5:26 pm ET
What Jeb Bush Was Talking About When He Said 'Stuff Happens'
by Jordan Frasier
GREENVILLE—Jeb Bush said calls for sweeping government rules and regulation
often follow tragedies like the mass shooting this week in Oregon, but that such responses aren't always focused on the correct challenge.
"What we end up doing lots of times is we create rules on the 99.999% of human activity that had nothing to do with the tragedy that had forced the conversation about doing something," Bush said. "
Stuff happens, there's always a crisis and the impulse is always to do something and it's not necessarily the right thing to do," he added.
Asked about Bush's comments at a news conference Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama said, "I don't even think I have to react to that one, I think the American people should hear that and make their own judgments based on the fact that every couple of months, we have a mass shooting ... and they can decide whether they consider that 'stuff happening.'"
