Obama Resists Gun Control Advocates’ Call for Legislation
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Calls from gun control groups for more federal restrictions on firearms after the second mass shooting in the U.S. in less than a month will probably go unanswered.
A day after a gunman killed six people in a Sikh temple near Milwaukee and 16 days after the theater shooting in Colorado left 12 dead, President Barack Obama told reporters he would “examine additional ways that we can reduce violence.” While offering condolences to mass victims for the second time in less than a month, he made no mention of gun control.