The president has made it clear that it is LEGAL guns that are to blame. Making that case is a step on the way to gun confiscation. Liberals can poo-poo that all they want, but that is the case. Obama is one who never lets a crisis go to waste. He immediately politicizes it. If you like your doctor, you can keep you doctor. If you like your side by side, you can keep it. Oh yeah, the president is a liar.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-...article/2596063Obama: Legal guns drive wedge between cops and communities
Legal ownership of weapons is creating tensions between police officers and communities, President Obama said to buttress his call for tighter gun laws.
"Part of what's creating tensions between communities and the police is the fact that police are having a really difficult time in communities where they know guns are everywhere," Obama said during a NATO press conference in Warsaw, Poland. "They have a right to come home, and now they have very little margin for error in terms of making decisions. So if you care about the safety of our police officers, then you can't set aside the gun issue and pretend that that's irrelevant."
Obama introduced that idea after mentioning "routine" violence in Chicago, Ill., a city with tight gun restrictions, but he made clear that legally-owned guns also pose a problem for law enforcement by citing the violence of the last week.
"At the protest in Dallas, one of the challenges for the Dallas Police Department as they're being shot at is because this is an open-carry state there are a bunch of people who are participating in a protest who have weapons on them," he said. "In Minneapolis, we don't know yet what happened, but we do know that there was a gun in the car that apparently was licensed, but it caused in some fashion those tragic events. So, no, we can't just ignore that and pretend that's somehow political or the president pushing his policy agenda."
In Minnesota, a police officer shot a man during a traffic stop who had a gun but who might have been reaching for his wallet. "It is a contributing factor, not the sole factor but a contributing factor to the broader tensions that arise between police and the communities where they serve," Obama said.
