Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On Wednesday, President Obama unveiled his proposals for curbing gun violence in America. Some of his suggestions would require new laws -- an unlikely outcome, given Congress' gridlock and the ...
Five days later, President Obama announced that he would make gun control a "central issue" of his second term, [35] and he created a gun violence task force, to be headed by Vice President Joe Biden. [36] On January 16, 2013, Obama signed 23 executive orders and proposed 12 congressional actions regarding gun control. [37]
"First of all, the notion that I or Hillary or Democrats or whoever you want to choose are hell-bent on taking away folks’ guns is just not true."
Since Obama was elected, mutual funds have raised their stakes to about $510 million from $30 million in the nation's two largest gun manufacturers. Obama and other gun control advocates own stock ...
Despite Obama's advocacy and subsequent mass shootings, no major gun control bill passed Congress during Obama's presidency. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) attempted to pass a more limited gun control measure that would have expanded background checks, but the bill was blocked in the Senate.
Obama’s former Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a radical idea on Twitter; parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws.
From a Pew Research Center poll that came out in August 2015 there has been a change in opinion on how people view gun rights vs controlling gun ownership. Throughout the various years (2008, 2011) when polling on this topic took place, there was a steady stance on the belief that controlling gun ownership should come before gun rights. [ 8 ]
In a Monday statement, former President Barack Obama urged the country to reject hateful and anti-immigrant rhetoric from "any of our leaders." Obama calls for gun control: 'We are not helpless ...