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DALLAS (AP) — A Texas police chief who warns President Barack Obama in a social media video that trying to disarm Americans would "cause a revolution" is the latest law enforcement official to urge citizens to arm themselves.
Randy Kennedy, longtime chief in Hughes Springs about 120 miles east of Dallas, says in the video posted this week on his personal Facebook page that the Second Amendment was established to protect people from criminals and "terrorists and radical ideology."
Law enforcement officials in Arizona, Florida and New York have also prompted people to arm themselves in the wake of mass shootings linked to terrorism.
John Moritz, spokesman for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, says caution should be used when giving such instructions to people who have no law enforcement training.
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