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The president said more must be done to keep weapons from criminals and the mentally unstable, vowing to do more but offering few specifics on how to prevent such occurrences under existing law. He spoke for six minutes, mourning the victims of high-profile shootings but also what he called the daily, “less publicized acts of violence.”
“When there's extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy, there's always an outcry immediately after for action,” Obama said to the crowd of 3,700. “Too often those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere.”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_new...t-time-since-aurora-shootings?ocid=todmsnbc11
Vote on the UN gun ban is tomorrow.
“When there's extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy, there's always an outcry immediately after for action,” Obama said to the crowd of 3,700. “Too often those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere.”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_new...t-time-since-aurora-shootings?ocid=todmsnbc11
Vote on the UN gun ban is tomorrow.