Obama sets deadline for gun policy
2012-12-19 22:18
Washington - US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday
he is seeking concrete policy recommendations no later than January aimed at
curbing US gun violence.
Obama, in formally announcing an effort to craft such
solutions after Friday's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, also
called on Congress to take up the issue quickly next year.
"If there is even one thing that we can do to
prevent any one of these events, we have a deep obligation - all of us - to
try," he told reporters at the White House.
The effort will be led by Vice President Joe Biden and is
part of Obama's call for action after the massacre of 26 people, including 20
children, at the school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Although Biden's commission is charged with coming up
with specific proposals, Obama said people should not be able to get their get
hands on assault weapons easily and that loopholes for gun-show sales need to
be closed.
