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Gun control will reduce police officer deaths: Obama
Source: Reuters
US | Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:43pm EDT
Gun control will reduce police officer deaths: Obama
CHICAGO | BY JULIA HARTE AND JULIA EDWARDS
President Barack Obama will tell police chiefs on Tuesday that stricter gun control would reduce the number of police officers shot down on U.S. streets, in his latest call for reform of laws that govern the use of firearms in America.
Obama is scheduled to speak at a major conference of police chiefs during a turbulent time for the law enforcement community, with a new U.S. Justice Department report expected to be issued at the gathering on ambush attacks on police.
"It’s time to be honest: fewer gun safety laws don’t mean more freedom, they mean more fallen officers. They mean more grieving families, and more Americans terrified that they or their loved ones could be next," Obama will say, according to prepared remarks released by the White House.
Obama will say that he refuses to "accept the notion that we couldn’t have prevented some of those murders, and suicides, and kept more families whole," despite Americans' differences about the constitutionally protected right of citizens to bear arms.
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Gun control will reduce police officer deaths: Obama
CHICAGO | BY JULIA HARTE AND JULIA EDWARDS
President Barack Obama will tell police chiefs on Tuesday that stricter gun control would reduce the number of police officers shot down on U.S. streets, in his latest call for reform of laws that govern the use of firearms in America.
Obama is scheduled to speak at a major conference of police chiefs during a turbulent time for the law enforcement community, with a new U.S. Justice Department report expected to be issued at the gathering on ambush attacks on police.
"It’s time to be honest: fewer gun safety laws don’t mean more freedom, they mean more fallen officers. They mean more grieving families, and more Americans terrified that they or their loved ones could be next," Obama will say, according to prepared remarks released by the White House.
Obama will say that he refuses to "accept the notion that we couldn’t have prevented some of those murders, and suicides, and kept more families whole," despite Americans' differences about the constitutionally protected right of citizens to bear arms.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/27/us-usa-justice-ambush-idUSKCN0SL0BD20151027
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