PRESIDENT OBAMA'S STATEMENT AFTER PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHOOTING
The
last thing Americans should have to do, over the holidays or any day,
is comfort the families of people killed by gun violence - people who
woke up in the morning and bid their loved ones goodbye with no idea it
would be for the last time.
And yet, two days after Thanksgiving, that’s what we are forced to do again.
We
don’t yet know what this particular gunman’s so-called motive was for
shooting 12 people, or for terrorizing an entire community, when he
opened fire with an assault weapon and took hostages at a Planned
Parenthood center in Colorado. What we do know is that he killed a cop
in the line of duty, along with two of the citizens that police officer
was trying to protect. We know that law enforcement saved lives, as so
many of them do every day, all across America.
And we know that more
Americans and their families had fear forced upon them.
This
is not normal. We can’t let it become normal. If we truly care about
this - if we’re going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for
God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience -- then we have
to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our
streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period. Enough is
enough.
May
God bless officer Garrett Swasey and the Americans he tried to save -
and may He grant the rest of us the courage to do the same thing.
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