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The White House has outlined plans for executive action, which focus on background checks, most of which can be carried out without Congressional approval.
During an emotional speech at the White House on Tuesday, Mr Obama said that “constant excuses for inaction” have to stop.
The President was in tears as he made a passionate call for a national “sense of urgency” to limit gun violence.
“That’s why we’re here, not to do something about the last mass shooting, but to prevent the next one,” he said.
“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,” Obama said, pausing to wipe away tears.
He added: “And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day,” referring to his hometown where he began his political career.
Surrounded by survivors and relatives of victims of shootings, recalling mass shootings in the US in the past few years and everyday gun violence in cities like Chicago, Mr Obama said, "The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage right now, but they can’t hold America hostage."
“Each time this comes up, we are fed the excuse that common-sense reforms like background checks might not have stopped the last massacre, or the one before that, or the one before that, so why bother trying,” Obama said. “I reject that thinking.”
“We know we can’t stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world. But maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence,” he added.
He explained that his actions are “not a plot to take away everybody’s guns” but compared his push for gun control to steps the US and businesses have taken to limit traffic fatalities, require fingerprints to unlock iPads and keep children from opening bottles of aspirin.
Former Congresswoman and gun control advocate Gabby Giffords, who was seriously injured in a 2011 mass shooting, was also in attendance at Tuesday’s event and was greeted with a standing ovation from the White House audience.
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