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Obama urges gun control after Colorado Springs shooting: 'Enough is enough'
The Guardian ^ | 1/28/15

Posted on 11/28/2015 1:38:37 PM PST by Impala64ssa

Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured.

After he was named, Barack Obama said on Saturday the US had “to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them”.

“Period,” the president added, in a statement released by the White House. “Enough is enough.”

Officials speaking off the record gave the suspect’s identity to news outlets late on Friday. On Saturday morning, the city of Colorado Springs confirmed Dear’s identity and released a booking photo taken at the El Paso County criminal justice center.

Early reports portrayed Dear as a loner who lived in a rural cabin and did not noticeably discuss issues such as religion or abortion. Motive therefore remained unclear in the attack, which police said on Friday was carried out with a “long gun” – usually a reference to a rifle or shotgun.

On Saturday, Colorado Springs mayor John Suthers told reporters authorities were not ready to discuss a possible motive for the shooting, but said people could make “inferences from where it took place”.

Suthers said investigators had interviewed Dear but added wanted to learn more about him.

On Saturday, a police spokesperson said unspecified “items” left at the scene by the suspect had been “secured and and processed, and are no longer a threat”.

The crime scene perimeter around the Planned Parenthood clinic had been reduced significantly and those whose cars were parked in a grocery store parking lot nearby were able to take their cars home.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; colorado; colradosprings; guncontrol; obama; obamahatesamerica; obamahatesbabies; plannedparenthood; robertdear; tyranny; willheeverleave
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To: FunkyZero

I think he was using that as a minimum.

Of course there are overachievers who make some of us feel guilty about our perceived lack of preparedness.


41 posted on 11/28/2015 2:15:52 PM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of a loving God and Virginian because Jesus loves me.)
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To: Impala64ssa

How about taking the knives away from the butchers that are killing babies in the womb.


42 posted on 11/28/2015 2:16:36 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Impala64ssa
IIRC Obola has a policy where if someone posts a suggestion to him on the White House website and it gets something like 50,000 "thumbs up" responses Obola himself will comment on the proposal on that website.

I suggest that someone post something like "because violence just begets more violence and because without guns there would *be* no more violence I propose that the White House,and the grounds around it,be declared a gun free zone" on that website.

43 posted on 11/28/2015 2:16:46 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Impala64ssa
Those prepared to give up freedom for a little security deserve neither. Freedom is slavery photo: Freedom and Courage Image020.jpg "A little security": promised by a federal government that could, but will not, secure the states from invasion by savages, and in fact sues them when they seek to protect themselves. But the federal camel asks us to trust them, just for now ... ask the states about this camel and the tents they once occupied.
44 posted on 11/28/2015 2:19:01 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Really. Why won’t that silly b*tch go after crazy people? Scared he’ll have to incarcerate too many of his own?


45 posted on 11/28/2015 2:22:16 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally twerking America)
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To: sheik yerbouty
Enough is enough!

58 million dead kids is enough! Close down planned parenthood before one more child is killed before their birthday and their body parts put up for sale.

46 posted on 11/28/2015 2:23:47 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
> I wish we could prove that they were behind them. It does seem to be leftist misfits doing the shooting.

Any operation like this would be so sensitive and compartmentalized that the actors involved would most likely be "burned" (murdered to cover their tracks) at the conclusion of the assignment because if it leaked it would do irreparable damage to the administration's reputation. They would use the young field ops which are a little too naive to carry out the missions because they would feel honored to be asked to work on such a sensitive op not realizing they have to be burned at the end...

47 posted on 11/28/2015 2:28:29 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Impala64ssa

Obama, after having his rear end handed to him by Putin and will likely again and again and again might be getting desperate for a victory either at home, or abroad. Since we know abroad is the long shot — I’m guessing he’s going to keep the oppression on.


48 posted on 11/28/2015 2:29:47 PM PST by Fhios (Anti-depressents aren't a good replacement for a good economy and national pride.)
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To: goodnesswins

Yes, and he can surely enlighten all of us on when enough freedom is enough, too.


49 posted on 11/28/2015 2:33:14 PM PST by punditwannabe
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To: Impala64ssa
That's what we've been saying about you, Barry: Enough is enough.
50 posted on 11/28/2015 2:33:48 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: wideawake

LOVE THAT!! (gonna steal it)


51 posted on 11/28/2015 2:34:27 PM PST by punditwannabe
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Hand gun > .22LR


52 posted on 11/28/2015 2:36:29 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Impala64ssa
If an Islamist did this shooting 0dunga would've called it merely a "setback"!!!

Besides, if this isn't a 'false flag' I don't know what is, 'Planned Parenthood as target' and all.

53 posted on 11/28/2015 2:38:33 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: goodnesswins

Like Merkel, President Obama MUST resign immediately. He is a disgrace to the office of the United States.


54 posted on 11/28/2015 2:39:08 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Impala64ssa

Nothing about black on black or gang violence in Chicago


55 posted on 11/28/2015 2:46:06 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Impala64ssa

It is sickening the politicization of tragedies by Obama... He really has reached the ultimate low...


56 posted on 11/28/2015 2:49:12 PM PST by freespirit2012
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To: Impala64ssa

Enough is enough of his Presidency. What a nightmare this is.


57 posted on 11/28/2015 2:50:13 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: oldvirginian
"who make some of us feel guilty"

I'm neither an overachiever or someone who wants to make you feel guilty. I'm just someone who has a collective compulsion. It's my only real hobby. I openly admit I own too many guns.. my wife told me so.

58 posted on 11/28/2015 2:59:51 PM PST by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: Impala64ssa

IF we ban a-sault rifles these things would not happen! SEE?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-shooting-where-did-michael-zehaf-bibeau-get-his-gun-1.2811249

OOPS.


59 posted on 11/28/2015 3:00:28 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Impala64ssa


60 posted on 11/28/2015 3:02:26 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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