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Obama would probably give US police fighter jets: Pundit

“Don’t expect Obama to do anything to change" gun laws, says Lendman.

US President Barack Obama's next step to further militarize the American police would probably be providing them with “tanks and artilleries, maybe F-16” fighter jets, says an American author and analyst.

“I suppose the next thing Obama will do would be to send them tanks and artilleries, maybe F-16s to go after people and communities,” said author and radio host Stephen Lendman in a Saturday interview with Press TV.

“Washington under his leadership is militarizing local police, state police, rural police, giving them heavy  weapons, the kind of military weapons; the kind of weapons that police never had before,” he said.

Lendman made the remarks when asked to comment on Obama’s recent call on Americans to unite around preventing gun violence.

“He has very disturbing habit of saying one thing and doing something entirely different,” said the analyst. “He wants people to do something to curb gun violence, but his policies are absolutely the opposite.”

On Friday, Obama held a private meeting with families of the victims of Oregon college shooting. During brief remarks afterward, he alluded to his push for stricter gun laws without wading into specifics. 

On October 1st, a gunman, identified as Chris Harper Mercer, opened fire inside a classroom at the college and killed ten people and injured seven others.

Meanwhile, Lendman also pointed out that “Obama is a serial liar. When he claims he is concerned about the victims of gun violence in America, his policies are actually increasing it. Because most of the gun violence is state sponsored.”

“Don’t expect Obama to do anything to change this. He has actually made it worst during it tenure. And probably in the time that he  has left, it will be even worse than what is now,” he concluded.

Under Obama, gun production soared 140 percent in the US, reaching 10.8 million firearms in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available.

Obama has said the “biggest frustration” of his time in the office has been the inability to reduce unparalleled levels of gun violence in the country.

More than 6,000 people have been killed and over 13,000 others injured in US-wide gun violence since January 1, 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

About 4.5 million firearms are sold annually in the country at a cost of two to three billion dollars.


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