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December 16, 2013

Obama on Newtown Anniversary: Push for Gun Control "Won't Come from Washington" 
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Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Newtown,
Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed six educators and
20 first-graders. Newtown residents held quiet remembrances after asking
the news media for privacy. In his weekly address, President Obama said
only political mobilization from concerned Americans can bring about
stricter gun control.

President Obama: "We have to do more to keep dangerous people from
getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal
troubled minds. We have to do everything we can to protect our children
from harm and make them feel loved and valued and cared for. And as we
do, we can't lose sight of the fact that real change won't come from
Washington. It will come the way it's always come: from you, from the
American people."

 

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