Gun Control: Why Obama Played It Safe in Remarks on Violence in Cities
Feldmann, Linda, The Christian Science Monitor
In a speech Wednesday to the National Urban League, President Obama made his first extended remarks on gun violence since the Colorado shooting spree that killed 12. Both the president and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, have played it safe in their comments on gun control.
Six days after the shooting spree in Colorado that killed 12 people, President Obama made his first extended remarks on gun violence.
Speaking Wednesday night to a gathering of the National Urban League in New Orleans, Mr. Obama extended his focus beyond the movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and into the streets of Chicago and Atlanta, where guns take the lives of young people …
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Article title: Gun Control: Why Obama Played It Safe in Remarks on Violence in Cities.
Contributors: Feldmann, Linda - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: July 26, 2012.
Page number: Not available.
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