President Barack Obama said Monday there is no evidence the Orlando shooter was part of a larger plot on the United States, but he appears to have been influenced by violent extremist information on the internet.

Obama also made yet another pitch for stricter gun access laws, calling many processes in place now “lax” which make it “too easy” for mentally ill individuals or lone wolf terrorists to obtain firearms. The president warned against “an either/or debate” that focuses only on terrorism or guns — “It’s not an either/or, it’s a both/and,” he said.

“We have to go after these terrorist organizations and hit them hard. We have to counter extremism,” Obama said in the Oval Office, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. seated beside him. “But we also have to make sure that it is not easy for someone who decides he wants to harm people in this country to obtain weapons to get at them.”

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Forty-nine people were killed in the attack at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday morning, before the gunman himself was shot dead by police.