President Obama Full Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Memorial Speech In Connecticut (Video)

Sunday, President Obama gave a speech in Newtown, Connecticut during the memorial vigil to express his sympathy for the families of the 27 victims and promised to make real change.

In his emotional speech the President said, "We can't accept events like this as routine," he said. "Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage? That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that the violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?"

The President then went on remembering all the other senseless shooting sprees, "If there's even one step we can take to save one child, or one parent, or one town from the grief that has visited Tucson, and Aurora and Oak Creek and Newtown and communities from Columbine to Blacksburg before that, then surely we have an obligation to try."

As many people could be heard in the audience grieving while the names of the victims were announced, Obama promised them that efforts will be made to help prevent tragedies like Sandy Hook Elementary school, "In the coming weeks, I'll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens, from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators in an effort to prevent more tragedies like this," he said. "Because what choice do we have?"