President Obama on Wednesday expressed concern about the shootings in Ottawa, Canada and said that the U.S. is working with Canada to determine whether the shootings were a terrorist attack.
“Just two days ago, a Canadian soldier had been killed in an attack. We now know that another young man was killed today. And I expressed on the behalf of the American people, our condolences to the family and to the Canadian people as a whole,” Obama said during brief remarks at the White House.
“We don’t yet have all the information about what motivated the shooting. We don’t yet have all the information about whether this was part of a broader network or a plan or whether this was an individual or series of individuals who decided to take these actions,” he continued.
The President said that the national security teams in the U.S. and Canada are “coordinating very closely.”
“It is very important, I think, for us to recognize that when it comes to dealing with terrorist activity that Canada and the United States have to be entirely in sync,” Obama said. “We have in the past and I’m confident we will continue to do so in the future.”
He said that the shooting “emphasizes the degree to which we have to remain vigilant when it comes to dealing with these kinds of acts of senseless violence or terror.”
It’s too bad we can’t treat general gun violent in the USA the same way…
So, I think it’s increasingly looking like it was a single gunman (not a much larger group as some American outlets were reporting earlier today). And can I just point out something about this incident that speak to a success of Canadian law - how difficult it is to get your hands on an automatic weapon. If this incident had taken place in the US, the gunman (who was armed with a regular rifle) would have used an automatic weapon and a lot more people would be dead. But it’s hard as hell to get your hands on one of those in Canada. So we have one fatality and an injury. And the only reason the soldier is dead is that he was shot in a surprise attack.
Time for the GOP/Teatrolls to demand something Obama isn’t doing as though it’s a massive failure not to be doing it. Ridiculous RWNJ fabrications in 3…2…
Has to be brown people or people with foreign names to get their attention. Armed brown people scare the everloving piss out of the white people in this country. When it’s a white dude, they’ll tell you not to jump to conclusions and 'let’s see if he had a good reason for it first."
WHY ISN’T OBAMA DOING SOMETHING???
This is Obama’s Katrina
(I promise this time)