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                                 US GUN CONTROL

   The Senate Judiciary Committee has begun a hearing on curbing gun
   violence, an issue that has taken on added urgency since last month`s
   mass shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
   Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in a January
   2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, opened the hearing by saying, "This
   is an important conversation ... Violence is a big problem. Too many
   children are dying. We must do something, it will be hard, but the time
   is now."
   On the other side of the debate, National Rifle Association CEO Wayne
   LaPierre plans to tell the lawmakers why the NRA opposes proposed
   changes in gun laws.
   In remarks prepared before the hearing he said, "We need to be honest
   about what works and what does not work. Proposals that would only
   serve to burden the law-abiding have failed in the past and will fail
   in the future."
   The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of
   U.S. citizens to own firearms. But under debate is how to regulate gun
   ownership.
   One of Congress` leading gun-control advocates, Senator Dianne
   Feinstein said Tuesday, "The time has come to change course, and the
   time has come to make people safe."
   A Judiciary Committee member, Feinstein has introduced legislation
   banning assault weapons and magazines of more than 10 rounds of
   ammunition.
   Senator Orrin Hatch said he is a strong supporter of the Second
   Amendment, but would listen to proposals and agreed that reviewing the
   issue is timely.
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