Obama On Planned Parenthood Shooting: ‘Enough Is Enough’

President Barack Obama listens during his joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. Hollande's v... President Barack Obama listens during his joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. Hollande's visit to Washington is part of a diplomatic offensive to get the international community to bolster the campaign against the Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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President Obama weighed in on Friday’s Planned Parenthood shooting in a statement released Saturday morning. He condemned the gunman “for terrorizing an entire community” and praised the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Police Officer Garrett Swasey, who was among the three people killed in the attack.

“This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal,” the statement said. “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.”

Read the full statement below:

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.

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