“Sometimes it’s innocent victims”, Obama said.
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Cooper said some Americans believe that Obama will try to go “further and further” in imposing stricter gun controls.
Obama spent the evening both defending his recent executive actions on guns in America and responding to audience questions about what they do and do not mean for responsible gun owners. “It’s a modest way of us getting started of improving prospects of young men and young women like you”. The president said that it was the only time he’d ever seen secret service members cry on duty.
President Obama cried while listing all the schools where students have been shot, including Newtown, Connecticut, where twenty first-graders, aged 6 and 7, were killed in a mass shooting in 2012.
“Even as I continue to take every action possible as president, I will also take every action I can as a citizen”.
Earnest said the president would reiterate his support for the Second Amendment and renounce claims that he’s trying to confiscate legally purchased guns.
“And she was absolutely right”.
U.S. President Barack Obama participated in a town hall meeting hosted by the U.S. TV network CNN Thursday night, defending his executive orders aimed at curbing gun violence in the country. Obama said he’s tried to reach out to the organization but hasn’t been successful. You’d think that they’d be prepared to have a debate… “I’m happy to meet with them”. “Are you suggesting that the notion that we are creating a plot to take everybody’s guns away so that we can impose martial law?”.
In a prime-time, televised town hall meeting Thursday, Obama fielded tough questions from high-profile gun control opponents and supporters alike, often answering with sympathy and without confrontation as he tried to reassure Americans there is a middle ground on a fiercely divisive issue. “Thank you for the action you took on Tuesday”.
“I have never owned a gun”, Obama said.
“Now its nearly as polarized as abortion, there’s nearly no more pro-gun Democrats, and there’s really no pro-gun control Republicans left”, said Jeremy Mayer, an associate political professor at George Mason University.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said before the event that the group saw “no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House”.
ANDERSON COOPER: But let me just jump in. Then a toddler who finds a gun would not be able to accidentally kill a playmate: More than 20,000 children have been shot to death over the past decade, too many of them in accidents like this. The FBI is going to hire 230 additional examiners and other staff to help with processing more background checks.
The president also published an opinion piece in Thursday’s New York Times in which he pledged not to support any candidate who is opposed to gun control. “I reject that thinking”.
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The NRA was invited to the event but declined to take part.
