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| Tearful Obama Outlines Steps to Cur |
| Tearful Obama Outlines Steps to Curb Gun Deaths
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-January-2016
5:50:58 AM |
| Tears streaming down his face, President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the gun violence that has reached across the United States as he vowed to take action to curb the bloodshed with or without Congress.
"In this room right here, there are a lot of stories. There's a lot of heartache," Obama said in the White House East Room, flanked by relatives of those struck down in mass shootings, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona. "There's a lot of resilience, there's a lot of strength, but there's also a lot of pain."
For all the emotion he showed, Obama nonetheless faces legal, political and logistical hurdles that are likely to blunt the effect of the plan he laid out.
A number of the executive actions he plans are only suggested "guidance" for federal agencies, not binding regulations. They were framed mostly as clarifying and enforcing existing law, not expanding it. And many of those measures rely on hefty funding increases that a Republican-led Congress is almost certain to reject.
Among other measures, the plan aims to better define who should be licensed as a gun dealer and thus be required to conduct background checks on customers to weed out prohibited buyers.
Even the administration said it was impossible to gauge how big an effect the steps might have, how many new gun sales might be regulated or how many illegal guns might be taken off the streets.
"I don't think anyone can credibly tell you yet what all this means," Charles E. James Jr., a former federal gun crimes prosecutor who now represents gun industry clients, said of Obama's plan.
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