Obama Blames "Easy Access To Guns" For Surge In Violence Between Police And Minorities
By Tyler Durden
Some were wondering how Obama would spin the surge in violence between police and minorities into yet another push for gun control.
We didn’t have long to wait.
Speaking in a news conference in Poland, the US president made the claim that contrary to all evidence, “racial relations have improved during his presidency”, to wit:
Now, when it comes to crime, generally, I think it’s just important to keep in mind that our crime rate today is substantially lower than it was five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago. Over the last four or five years, during the course of my presidency, violent crime in the United States is the lowest it’s been since probably the 1960s, maybe before the early 1960s. There’s been an incredible drop in violent crime.
So that doesn’t lessen, I think, people’s understandable fears if they see a video clip of somebody getting killed. But it is important to keep in perspective that in places like New York, or Los Angeles, or Dallas, you’ve seen huge drops in the murder rates. And that’s a testimony to smarter policing, and there are a range of other factors that have contributed to that.
Reading from a teleprompter, Obama said he’s tried to get all Americans to listen to each other on matters of race, and added that he believes his voice has “been true in speaking about these issues.” Oddly enough it would appear that all Americans have not listened. What he didn’t say is that under his divisive, race/class/ethnicity-baiting presidency, whether due to his social politics or his disastrous economic agenda which has let the Fed’s market boosting, monetary policy as the only game in town, and led to record wealth redistribution that has transferred trillions from the future to the richest 0.01% now (one look at a chart of the $19.3 trillion in US debt should be sufficient evidence) gun sales under Obama have been absolutely unprecedented, as even the NYT has shown:
As we reported two weeks ago, under Obama, background checks for guns reached 141.4 million through the end of May, amounting to sales of about 52,600 a day, according to the FBI… And 2016 is on pace to surpass last year’s record.
But ignore all that. Instead, Obama pledged on Saturday to seek ways to calm racial tensions and reduce divisions between police and minorities during his final months in office, but he warned that easy access to guns nationwide exacerbated the problem. “The proliferation of guns among the U.S. citizenry contributes to lethal encounters between minorities and police, heightening the danger law enforcement officers face in even routine interactions with the public,” Obama said.
Odd: no comments about “Obama’s city”, Chicago, where “only” 10 people being shot on any given weekend is considered a victory. The same Chicago which has ultra strict gun laws, that is.
Just like Hillary Clinton, Obama also blamed YouTube clips:
“with respect to, finally, the issue of police shootings, there’s no …read more
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