Washington – Obama Says After Planned Parenthood Shooting: US Must Make It Harder To Get Guns, ”Enough Is Enough”

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    Two women are evacuated from a building where a shooter was suspected to be still holed up in Colorado Springs, Colorado November 27, 2015 in a driving snow storm. ReutersWashington – Expressing what has become regularly repeated frustration on the issue, President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States needs to “do something” to make it harder for criminals to get guns after a shooting in Colorado killed three people and injured nine.

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    “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,” Obama said in a statement. “Enough is enough.”‎

    In Friday’s shooting, an assailant opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic, a center that provides health services including abortions, in Colorado Springs.

    It was the latest in a long series of U.S. mass shootings during Obama’s seven years in office. He has called the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, his toughest day as president.

    Obama said it was too soon to know the Colorado Springs shooter’s “so-called motive” but said the tragedy was more evidence pointing to the need to reform firearms laws.

    “This is not normal,” said Obama, who has become increasingly forthright in urging gun control measures when he makes statements after such events. “We can’t let it become normal.”

    Obama tried to tighten up gun laws after the Newtown shootings, but met resistance in the U.S. Congress, including from some of his fellow Democrats, and failed to push a measure through.

    After another deadly shooting at an Oregon community college last month, Obama said White House lawyers would pore through existing laws to look for new ways he could use his executive powers to enforce regulations.

    One of those options would require more gun dealers to get a license to sell guns, which would lead to more background checks on buyers.

    The White House had drafted a proposal on that issue in 2013, but was concerned it could be challenged in court. Administration officials are now hopeful they can find a way to advance the plan.

    Obama has also pledged to elevate the issue of gun laws during his remaining time in office, and has denounced lawmakers for bowing to pressure from the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group.

    On Saturday, he said Americans could not “offer up our thoughts and prayers” for the families of the dead police officer and of the two other victims of the shooting “with a truly clean conscience” unless they also pushed for changes to make it harder to get guns.

    “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,” Obama said.‎


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    Normal
    Normal
    8 years ago

    Only in America and Mexico.

    YossiP
    YossiP
    8 years ago

    What an opportunist.. Always taking advantage of a crisis…

    Mark Levin
    Mark Levin
    8 years ago

    Liberal Democrat hypocrisy…..

    The shvartzas are killing each other in Chicago and he doesn’t give a farm about them.

    Babies are MURDERED every day at Unplanned Parenthood and that different bother him either.

    Liepa
    Liepa
    8 years ago

    I’m solidly behind the president on this one, ‘enough is enough’, gun control is completely out of control.

    Normal
    Normal
    8 years ago

    I Australia there are basically no guns and there hasn’t been a US style massacre here since guns were banned thirty years ago.

    golani
    golani
    8 years ago

    mental health is the main problem,and the liberals supported closing down mental institutions.they also prevent mental health records from being included in a background check because of hippa rules.if you dont want to deal with the underlying problem you will never solve the problem . people with problems will find away to to commit murder,knives explosives etc.

    8 years ago

    Guns are not illegal, and are actually protected by the Constitution. That cannot be truly legislated, unless the Muslim in the White House finds some loopholes that he can bypass everything with his wretched executive orders. If he does, he needs to have the order taken to the Supreme Court immediately, and Congress should open impeachment hearings. Meanwhile, these shooters are committing crimes, and they need to prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

    Now we do suffer from another serious problem. We have sentencing practices that are illogical and ineffective. We have white collar criminals doing very long sentences. The murderers and other violent criminals, who do not get rehabilitated in prison are back out on the streets, having learned a few more tricks to their armamentarium of violence. If their sentence is too long, and they are black, Obama will commute their sentence. These murderers need to be executed in short order, and certainly not be released. We reserve long sentences for those who might actually be able to compensate their victims of white collar crime. Killers go back to their mean streets. Ridiculous.