Tearful Obama calls for "meaningful action" after school shooting [View all]
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Source: Reuters
Choking up and wiping away tears, President Barack Obama said on Friday that "our hearts are broken" for the victims of a deadly shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school and called for "meaningful action" to curb gun violence.
"We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years," Obama said during a somber televised appearance in the White House briefing room just hours after one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
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"As a country, we have been through this too many times," Obama said, ticking off a list of recent shootings.
"And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics," he said, in an apparent reference to the influence of the National Rifle Association, a powerful pro-gun lobby, in Congress.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/15/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-president-idUSBRE8BD17P20121215
Several right wingers have already attacked these comments saying that it is proof that President Obama is about take their guns.
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