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On January 16, 2013, one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, President Obama outlined a series of sweeping gun control proposals, urging Congress to reintroduce an expired ban on "military-style" assault weapons, such as those used in several recent mass shootings, impose limits on ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, introduce ...
Five days later, President Obama announced that he would make gun control a "central issue" of his second term, [79] and he created a gun violence task force, to be headed by Vice President Joe Biden. [80] On January 16, 2013, Obama signed 23 executive orders and proposed 12 congressional actions regarding gun control. [81]
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.
Doug Rhude, a gun shop owner, challenged President Obama's record on gun control. Arguing that irresponsible people in our society are accountable for actions such as drinking and driving without ...
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 ...
Within hours of the shooting, a We the People user started a petition asking the White House to "immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress," [5] [6] and the gun control advocacy group the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence reported that an avalanche of donations caused its website to crash. [7]
Vice President Biden and President Obama have now publicly spoken about what the nation's new efforts on gun control will look like. What we at 24/7 Wall St. have maintained this entire time since ...
President Barack Obama announced that he would make a speech about gun control at the University of Hartford in West Hartford. [17] Many legal, law-abiding, free-citizen Connecticut resident firearm owners see this as infringement upon the Second Amendment to the United States constitution and Article 1, Section 15 of the Connecticut state ...