Obama: Gun Control Is Necessary ‘If You Care About the Safety of Our Police Officers’  

 Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Speaking from the NATO Summit in Poland on Saturday, President Obama dismissed rhetoric that the nation is sharply divided and back to where it was in the 1960s.

"You're not seeing riots. You're not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully. You've seen, almost uniformly, peaceful protests and you've seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism," Obama said.

"We have to make sure that all of us step back, do some reflection and make sure that the rhetoric we engage in is constructive and not destructive. That we're not painting anybody with an overly broad brush and we're not constantly thinking the worst in other people rather than the best."

The president said it’s been a “tough” week in America, after two black men were killed by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, and five law enforcement officers were murdered and six others injured by a sniper at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.

While taking questions, the president also responded to those who criticized him for mentioning gun control during his first statement on the Dallas attack.

Black El Paso Police Chief Tells Press BLM Is a 'Radical Hate Group'

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheets

 

El Paso area leaders gathered Friday evening at a news conference to express their solidarity with Dallas after five law enforcement officers were killed and six others were injured in a sniper attack.

El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles offered condolences, while state, county, and city officials discussed the attack’s impact on the country, Texas, and El Paso. But it was a comment made by El Paso’s African-American Police Chief Greg Allen after the news conference that drew the most attention.

Though Allen was laconic and vague in most of his answers to the press, he opened up when it came to a question about the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Black Lives Matter, as far as I am concerned, is a radical hate group,” he said. “And for that purpose alone, I think the leadership of this country needs to look a little bit harder at that particular group. The consequences of what we saw in Dallas is due to their efforts.”

According to the El Paso Times, Allen is the first black police chief in the city’s history. He’s been in charge of the department—one of the country’s largest—since 2007. And during his tenure, the city has been consistently ranked as one of the safest large cities in America.

Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad to Muslims: “Black Lives Matter is our campaign”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

An alliance of terrorist organizations. Five police officers murdered in Dallas, and more is coming. Video thanks to Understanding the Threat.
 
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Head of the ­Defense Intelligence Agency FIRED for Calling our Enemies Radical Jihadis

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

For years, I have written and warned of the catastrophic consequences of Obama’s sharia compliant national security policies. Obama scrubbed all counter terror materials of the jihadic doctrine and Islam.

Here is a senior ranking casualty of Obama’s jihad.

“The military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis,” By Michael Flynn, NY Post, July 9, 2016:

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is reportedly being vetted by Donald Trump as a potential running mate, was fired as head of the ­Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the winter of 2014 after three decades in the military. Here he tells the real story of his departure from his post and why America is not getting any closer to winning the war on...

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