Do you support Obama call for sweeping new gun laws (329 hits)
Setting the stage for what could be the most sweeping political battle over gun control in decades, President Obama today laid out a comprehensive package for reducing gun violence in America, a multi-part plan he says will not only "help prevent mass shootings" going forward but also "reduce the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country."
Speaking to an audience that included family members of those killed a month ago in the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as well as children who wrote to Mr. Obama in the wake of recent episodes of mass violence, the president outlined a series of steps both political and administrative he says would limit access to guns and certain types of ammunition, make mental health care more attainable, and increase federal funds for both research and law enforcement.
To understand the realities of President Obama's new proposals on gun, Jeffrey Brown gets perspective from Josh Horwitz from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, David Kopel of the Independence Institute, Georgetown University School of Medicine's Dr. Liza Gold and Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.
Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 10:55PM
DAVID JOHNSON
It makes me uneasy. I see unrestrained aggression towards sovereign nations, manmade drought famine and flood, militarization of police forces... How many gun deaths are caused by unjustified use of force by the police? It makes me uneasy.
Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 11:47PM
Steve Williams
