President Obama issued a New Year’s Day call to Americans to help him fight an “epidemic of gun violence” in the USA, signaling it is a top priority as he prepares to decide whether to impose new gun control measures under existing federal law.
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President Obama will meet with Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on Monday to discuss what he can do to curb gun violence, sidestepping an entrenched Congress.
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Obama lately directed employees at the White Home to look in to potential executive actions, resembling expanding background checks.
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Because I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing.
“The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well organised in our defense of our kids”.
Obama’s address came as a Texas law allowing licensed firearms owners to carry handguns openly in public places took effect.
Advancing gun control, closing the US military prison in Cuba and reforming criminal justice laws are likely to top President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address agenda next month as he starts his previous year with a key goal: remaining relevant.
White House officials won’t confirm the timing. But others who only make occasional sales or are selling firearms from a personal collection are exempted from the background check requirement.
Gun violence in the United States kills more than 30,000 people a year.
Everytown spokeswoman Erika Soto Lamb, whose group was founded with Bloomberg’s support, said the current interpretation of what it means to be “engaged in the business” of selling firearms is “a hazy definition that allows high-volume sellers to transfer thousands of guns without background checks, no questions asked”.
The White House has been hinting for much of the past month that the president was considering executive action on gun control, in the wake of a long line of mass shootings nationwide this year and a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.
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“This Friday, I’ll be thinking about my friend Gabby Giffords, five years into her recovery from the shooting in Tucson”, he said, speaking of a former USA congresswoman and victim of another of the nation’s spasms of gun violence. He said it was also supported by a majority of the National Rifle Association members, but “the gun lobby mobilized against it and the Senate blocked it”. “But what if we tried to stop even one?”
