A Look at Americans and Their Affinity for Guns

A tearful President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was taking executive action, bypassing Congress, to implement new "common-sense" measures aimed at reducing gun violence in America. “In Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s words, we need to feel the fierce urgency of now, because people are dying,” a visibly emotional Obama told an audience of mass shooting victims and relatives at the White House. “Our inalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those...

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