Statement by the President
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 twelve 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.
Source: The White House, Office
of the Press Secretary
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