During last night’s CNN-hosted town hall meeting, President Obama emphasized that he wanted to impose stricter backgrounds checks to fix many Americans’ frayed sense of personal security.
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“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad”, the president said, struggling to collect himself.
“To keep on infringing on our Second Amendment rights”, Lemoine replied.
Guns are a potent issue in US politics.
There will also be moves to tighten rules for reporting guns that are lost or stolen to make it easier for law enforcement to track down missing firearms.
“I was, too, actually”, Obama told CNN during a town hall on gun laws in a suburb.
Former astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife, gun violence victim and former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giff …
The White House portrays the NRA, the nation’s largest gun group, as possessing a disproportionate influence over politicians that has prevented new gun laws despite polls that show broad support for measures like universal background checks.
“He’s trying to do something about it by better gun control, better gun legislation, so hopefully there won’t be so many guns on the street, which is the only thing that can help us right now”, Dyer said.
Following President Obama’s recent executive order addressing gun violence, Republican lawmakers and NRA propagandists went straight to pointing out that it would not have stopped most of the high-profile mass shootings in the United States in recent years.
The president said Michelle Obama made the remark while they were campaigning in Iowa.
Flanked by survivors of the violence that kills around 30,000 Americans every year, and relatives of some of those killed, Obama became emotional as he remembered 20 elementary school children shot dead three years ago in Newtown, Connecticut.
“It continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency”, Obama said on CNN.
BARACK OBAMA: No, I didn’t say that. “The executive action is not going to make a difference”.
Barack Obama urges the Congress to address an “insane” legal loophole on gun laws. Most notably, the president announced that he would not support a candidate, even a Democrat, who was not in support of what he called “common-sense” gun reform.
Obama is making the demand in an op-ed published Thursday on The New York Times’ website. The group declined an invitation to participate in the event.
Chris Cox, the NRA’s chief lobbyist, said he was “not really interested” in talking to Obama. The town hall will be broadcast live but is not open to the public.
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“What are we going to talk about, basketball?” he said.
