Obama Lashes Out After Planned Parenthood Shooting: 'This Is Not Normal'

I do not know how we, as a society can go on like this--week after week of mass shootings.



Nov 28 2015, 11:58 am ET

Obama Lashes Out After Planned Parenthood Shooting: 'This Is Not Normal'

by Erik Ortiz

3 dead after gunman attacks Colorado Planned Parenthood 2:56

President Barack Obama lamented the latest burst of gun violence in America — the shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood — and again called for the need for tighter gun control laws.

"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," Obama said in a statement Saturday. "Period. Enough is enough."



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"This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal." —@POTUS on the shooting in Colorado



Three people were killed when a gunman — later identified by police as Robert Dear, 57 — launched gunbattles with officers from inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday. Nine others were wounded, and Dear was taken into custody after the five-hour standoff.

Police have not given a motive for why Dear allegedly staged the shooting rampage at the Planned Parenthood, and it was unclear whether he lawfully obtained his AK-47-style weapon.

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Obama said the shooting is especially rattling during this holiday week. ......................