President Barack Obama has expressed anger over the gun laws in the United States, saying that people can acquire guns much more easily than books.

Obama made the remarks on Saturday in Los Angeles after he met with families of the victims of the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon which left 10 people dead and 7 others injured on October 1.

“Some of these families were trying to process their 18-year-old child who they had invested their lives in” being gone, Obama said. “That first week of college they were taken.”

"It’s not just mass shootings, it is the daily shootings that take place in cities across America,” he said, adding “it is easier to buy a gun than buy a book."

"We have a different vision of what America can look like," Obama said. "What’s true on gun violence is true on every issue that matters to you.”

On Friday, over 200 gun-rights activists protested President Barack Obama's visit to Oregon, holding signs that read Obama was not welcomed.The protesters were angry about Obama's calls for restrictions on guns.

Obama reacted to the protests on Saturday, describing the reaction in the town as "overwhelmingly" one of "shock and grief."

Gun owners believe that the solution to mass murders is more people carrying weapons, not fewer.

However, statistics by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show that firearms are the cause of death for more than 33,000 people in the United States every year, a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides.

That means firearms kill more people in America every six hours than terrorist attacks did in the entire year of 2014.