“This is not my bill,” said President Barack Obama in response to Thursday’s (11.04.2013) long-awaited vote on gun control in the Senate. But like many people, his disappointment at the diluted bill being presented to Congress was balanced by relief that gun control was finally going to be discussed at all. “We don’t have to agree on everything to know that we’ve got to do something to stem the tide of gun violence,” the president’s written statement continued, hinting at all the proposals he had made and which had to be dropped to find a bipartisan compromise that had a chance of being passed in the vote. While Obama wanted the bill to include a ban on assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines, in the end he and the Democrats had to settle for expanded background checks for gun shows and online sales. Despite that, the media was able to hail the bill as the United States’ most ambitious gun safety legislation in almost two decades – since 1994, to be precise, when certain assault rifles were banned – legislation that was allowed to lapse under President George W. Bush. But on Thursday, as relatives of the 20 children killed… Read full this story
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