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With tears in his eyes, President Obama pulled out all the stops in pushing his new executive orders on gun control this week. A Washington Post headline exclaimed, "President Obama’s amazingly ...
Ahead of President Obama's town-hall-style event on guns Thursday night at George Mason University, the campus police chief sent an email to students alerting them that protesters might show up ...
Obama said Congress, which blocked a tougher gun bill in 2013, still needs to impose new gun control measures. He noted that many of the actions he’s calling for can only be imposed through ...
"Every single year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns," Obama says. He adds that there's resilience in the room, along with heartache, among the survivors of gun violence.
Obama answers a question from Paul Babeu, a sheriff in Arizona running for Congress. Babeu asked Obama what he's doing to prevent mass shootings, not target guns.
President Obama doubled down on his push for gun control Thursday at a televised town hall in which he said that sales of guns have soared under his presidency because gun groups have convinced ...
In citing guns first, Obama risks looking more like a politician than a president — a politician cherry-picking his favorite causes. Advertisement. But he's grown increasingly comfortable with that.
Obama said, "States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths." Research shows that the more gun laws a state has, the fewer gun deaths there are.
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced a series of executive actions on guns Tuesday, focusing on the victims of gun violence in a White House event intended to prod Congress to take further action.
For all the furor over President Obama’s actions on guns Tuesday, the details are much tamer than the bold restrictions he proposed almost three years ago after the massacre of 20 first-graders ...
In an attempt to spin forward his gun-violence proposals while on the road and away from the rancor of a fired-up Washington, President Obama said in a speech in Minneapolis that legislators need ...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: 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.