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March 29, 2013

Obama: "Shame on Us If We've Forgotten" Newtown 
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President Obama invoked Newtown on Thursday at a news conference
Thursday to reaffirm his push for gun-control legislation on Capitol
Hill. Flanked by a group of gun-control activists, including mothers who
have lost children to shootings, Obama said, "Shame on us if we've
forgotten" the Newtown victims. Obama vowed to continue his efforts
despite heavy opposition from gun-control foes.

President Obama: "There are some powerful voices on the other side that
are interested in running out the clock or changing the subject or
drowning out the majority of the American people to prevent any of these
reforms from happening at all. They're doing everything they can to make
all our progress collapse under the weight of fear and frustration, or
their assumption is, is that people will just forget about it."

The Senate is facing an upcoming vote on a new gun-control law. Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid has already excluded an assault weapons ban
from the overall legislation, but it could still come up for a vote as
an amendment.

 

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