Discrimination against LGBT people must be tackled
at home and abroad, President Obama has said after meeting relatives of Orlando
attack victims.
A gunman killed 49 people on Sunday morning at a gay
nightclub in the city.
Mr Obama challenged the Republican-controlled
Congress to pass gun control legislation.
But Republican Senator John McCain said the
president was "directly responsible" because he had failed to tackle
the Islamic State group.
Gunman Omar Mateen claimed allegiance to the
militant group as he carried out the massacre.
Senator McCain said: "When he pulled everybody
out of Iraq, al-Qaeda went to Syria, became Isis [Islamic State], and Isis is
what it is today thanks to Barack Obama's failures, utter failures, by pulling
everybody out of Iraq."
He later clarified that he did not mean the
president was personally responsible.
On Thursday, hundreds of people gathered outside the
Amway Center in Orlando as the president and Vice-President Joe Biden consoled
relatives inside.
"I held and hugged grieving relatives and they
asked: Why does it keep happening?" Mr Obama said, adding: "They
don't care about the politics."
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