President Obama on Sunday condemned the Saturday shooting of two New York City police officers in Brooklyn.
“I unconditionally condemn today’s murder of two police officers in New York City. Two brave men won’t be going home to their loved ones tonight, and for that, there is no justification,” Obama said in a written statement.
He called on Americans to respect the police officers that serve them.
“The officers who serve and protect our communities risk their own safety for ours every single day – and they deserve our respect and gratitude every single day. Tonight, I ask people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal – prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen,” he said.
New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot in the head on Saturday while sitting in a patrol car in Brooklyn. Both died on Saturday from the gunshot wounds.
The suspect, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, then shot and killed himself. On his social media accounts, Brinsley indicated that he was angry at the police over the death of Eric Garner.
When passions are so powerful that suicide murders occur, something has broken. Any military expert will tell you that is a different sort of battle, because our own soldiers, and our cops for that matter, are never so passionate that they are expected to kill themselves in the process.
This is very disconcerting, especially for the all those skin-headed authoritarians who support guns-gone-wild with their last breath.
They are not nearly so afraid of suicide shooters who are willing to die while killing rooms full of movie-goers and elementary schoolkids. If all those gun-happy crazies start copycatting copkillers, or turn their weapons on the ultra-rich or their fat-cats lobbyists, or onto NRA leaders, the gun laws will change overnight.
Good words, but he’s still going to get killed for them: “Why didn’t he say this about Ferguson? Why did he support LeBron James wearing that t-shirt? WHY DIDN’T HE & BIDEN RESIGN AFTER THE MIDTERMS AND TURN THEMSELVES IN FOR TREASON???1!!!”
…and so on.
only because your biggest concern is gun regulation… every thought is filtered through that sieve, so you can’t discern the simple facts first. You are cocked with a hair-trigger to defend gun ownership, at any other cost, so you missed the point entirely in your fanatical focus on protecting the 2nd Amendment, when you are really just protecting gun manufacturers’ rights to profit from the divisiveness that the right has foisted upon our nation via their radio and TV poison pens.
answerfrog, when a gunhead like Kidding Me hears that you want his gun dealer to obey the law, they consider it a law worthy of nullification, whether they have ever read it or not.
Ever since the early 1800’s, when the deep south slavers effectively brainwashed the poor southern whites into fighting for their slaveholding rights under the guise of “states rights” there has not been a more egregious use of thought reform than the one the NRA created when the cold war ended and all those juicy AK47’s hit the retail market.
They entrapped the mob with right wing media and then armed it in defense of guns-gone-wild.
For no other reason than those profits, regardless of what the right wing says.
Until the hate-spewers in right wing media stop fomenting fear and loathing in the Tea Mob they tapped when all the sane people ran out, blaming Washington and our lawmakers for their lack of comity is ludicrous, and another example of trying to cure a symptom with million dollar drugs, instead of curing the disease that causes that symptom with some simple common sense at the legislative level.