Obama Attempts To Exploit Colorado Shooting, Calls for “Assault Weapon” Ban

By Bob Owens

President Barack Obama wasted no time in politicizing an attack on police officers and shoppers from inside a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs yesterday afternoon.

US President Barack Obama declared “enough is enough” and made an impassioned call for tighter controls on military-style weapons Saturday, a day after a gunman killed three people at a family planning center.

The alleged shooter, R__ L__ D__*, 57, entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday in a six-hour siege that left a policeman among the dead and nine others wounded.

D__ eventually surrendered and is in police custody, after just the latest deadly rampage to convulse the United States, although officials remain tight-lipped as to the gunman’s motives.

Obama said the suspect was armed with an assault weapon and had held hostages at the Planned Parenthood center, from which he opened fire at people outside.

“This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal,” a clearly frustrated Obama said in a statement.

“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 …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms