YES: Obama again blames the guns, not the shooters or their hatreds.

Just as he did after the Orlando shooting, the president of the United States spent more time blaming guns for the mass shooting against law enforcement Thursday night than the people who pulled the triggers or the hatred that motivated them.

Speaking from Poland, where he’s attending the NATO summit, Obama used the shooting death of five law enforcement officers and the injury of six more as a pretext for another call for more gun control.

“When people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and tragic,” Obama said. “In the days ahead we’re going to have to consider those realities.”

The police shootings came during a demonstration in Dallas, Texas following the police shooting deaths of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier this week.

After the police killings, he said the reaction in Dallas was “symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities” in the U.S. We know from statistics that more black men were killed by cops in 2015 than cops were killed for felonious reasons in the same year. More whites are killed by cops than blacks, but as a percentage, blacks are more likely to be killed by police.

But the real issue here is that no innocent person should be gunned down, whether they are a black man or a police officer. And to shoot at law enforcement simply in order to intimidate cops is to attack the law itself.

Well, Obama’s just following the template helpfully illustrated by Jon Gabriel: