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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.