Michael Moore: Ban guns, retrain all cops, end war

He laid out this simple enough, matter of fact manifesto on Twitter and even threw in a ban on ammo magazines for good measure, though it wouldn’t be needed if his ban on semiautomatic firearms takes place. The reason: He’d take away all the guns that use magazines, large and small.

On Twitter Monday night, he wrote:

“We must ban all semi-automatic guns & large-capacity ammo magazines-AND we must stop sending young people to war who come back all messed up.”

Earlier Monday, the producer of “Where We Invade Next,” tweeted:

“Mr Obama- Glad u are going to Dallas. But PLEASE, no more ‘prayers.’ Honor the dead, pay cops more, jail the abusive ones, retrain em all…”

President Obama is heading to Dallas to meet with the families of the five Dallas Police Department officer ambushed and killed last week.

In a recent series of tweets he has both praised Black Lives Matter and highlighted the efforts the Dallas Police have taken to improve community relations.

“More black ppl killed by police in 2015 than were lynched in the WORST year of Jim Crow segregation laws (1890-1965),” he tweeted after this one: “Thank you #BlackLivesMatter for all that stand for & all that you do. Keep the protests going. Millions stand with you. @Blklivesmatter.”

He tempered earlier anti-police rants on Twitter with a nod to the Dallas police. “With black police chief and new policies/training, police abuse complaints in Dallas have dropped a whopping 82% since 2010. Thank u DPD.”

Still, he came back to the gun ban as the solution to ending shootings, writing after the Dallas shootings, “There have always been people who’ve snapped, gone insane, committed horrors. We can’t always control that. We can, though, control the guns.”

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]