Last Thursday a gunman opened fire inside a classroom at a rural Oregon community college Thursday, killing nine people before taking his own life. President Obama was angry and made an impassioned plea for gun control after the shootings in Oregon.

A few days later twelve ‘Doctors Without Borders’ staff along with seven patients, including three children, were killed after an apparent U.S. airstrike hit the international charity’s hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. There were no International staff involved. President Barack Obama offered his condolences to the victims and said he will be kept updated on any developments into the investigation of the bombing.

President Obama, whose name is globally synonymous with drone strikes, personally expressed his “profound regret and apologized for an errant USA ‘killer drone’ strike that killed Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto, an American and an Italian.

Faisal bin Ali Jaber, a Yemeni man, sought an apology for an errant USA drone strike that killed members of his family. President Obama refused to offer an apology.

What do these incidents say about the USA and the President? In my opinion and in the view of many in the world these two incidents say loud and clearly two things. The President wants ‘gun control’ for USA citizens but no control for USA bombing and ‘killer drone’ attacks, currently in seven countries. It also clearly says that USA and Western lives are valuable but Yemeni Afghan and Afghan citizens are not.

I do not want to put all the blame on President Obama since he is doing, perhaps on a larger scale, what every President, Commander in Chief, since Ronald Regan, Republican or Democrat, has done: condemn killing of US citizens but looking the other way in US killing of citizens in Middle East countries and around the world, in non-white cultures. Also each President has promoted more military might, weapons of mass destruction, each year. President Obama and the USA has sold more arms to more countries in his first five years in office than President Bush did in all of his eight year term. The USA is the weapons dealer with the most “blood on their hands” as Pope Francis called it.

I remember the day of the Columbine High killings in Littleton Co. My brother and his family live in this town and I was shocked and grieved as President Clinton expressed. Later I found out that on that same day President Clinton had ordered the largest US bombing in Kosovo, killing countless people, many of them innocent Christians.

The countless USA ‘killer drone’ attacks and bombings have been useful for our enemies in these and other countries. Using our verbiage they are ‘terrorist’ attacks and call for more revenge on USA.

When will ever learn that killing with a handgun or by bombing or done attack is still killing and only leads to more killing?

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