White House Suggests President Obama Will Not Push for More Gun Control [View all]
Source: ABC News
The White House signaled today that President Obama, who has seldom shown much appetite to fight with the powerful National Rifle Association, did not intend to make a push for stricter gun controls in the wake of the shootings in Aurora, Colo.
“The president’s views on this are, as he has stated and as he spelled out in the op-ed that was published in an Arizona newspaper, which is that he believes we need to take steps that protect Second Amendment rights of the American people but that ensure that we are not allowing weapons into the hands of individuals who should not, by existing law, obtain those weapons,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Air Force One as the president flew to Colorado.
“The president’s view is that we can take steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them under existing law,” Carney said. “And that’s his focus right now.”
Asked about the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, which might have covered one of the weapons used by the shooter, and perhaps a large capacity ammunition feeding device, Carney suggested that there was no new push for the ban to be renewed.
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I stand with my president.
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