Gun control will reduce police officer deaths: Obama

[Eugene]

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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[ileus]

1. Thanks anyway but I value my life just as much as the next officer.

disarming citizens doesn't make them safe, only easier victims...that's not progressive.

[DocPain]

2. Sure it will.

Please disarm all the criminals, and crazies first, and then I will think about it.


Oh, wait....no I wont.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

4. Start with disarming police.

Way too many crazy armed LEOs out there.

[peace13]

3. Weird, I thought the number of officer fatalities was at an all time low.

Seems like he would be addressing the number of civilians killed by officers. The last paragraph above is interesting when talking about the victims of the police.