Mourners gathered at Newtown high school in Connecticut on Sunday for a service for those killed at the elementary school of sandy hook. "We need to change," said President Obama that collect. More photos».
The speech, a mixture of sadness and to solve, stopping it in writing to the above short flight of air force one seemed to promise a significant change in direction for a President, the weapons not made priority in four years in Office has problems. After each of the three other mass killings during his tenure Mr. Obama legislation calls renewed without beating themselves much political capital, but the final language on Sunday make it more difficult for him not to act at this time.
"No single law, no set of laws can to eliminate evil from the world or to prevent that each act of senseless violence in our society," he said. "But this can be no excuse for inaction." He added that "in the coming weeks, I makes what use this Office holds" in an effort "to prevent more tragedies as follows.""Since we have what for an election?" he added. "We can not accept events like this as routine." Are we really willing to say that we are powerless against such carnage? That the policy is too hard? Are we ready to say that such violence our children year after year after year the price for our freedom is somehow visited? "
Mr. Obama, votive candles for each victim, respond to a strong stage in front of a table his call to action with words of consolation for the bereaved mixed city. When he read the names of the teachers killed defending their students, people in the audience gasped and wept.The service came as new details about the terrifying moments at Sandy Hook elementary school on Friday. Authorities, that shot the shooter, Adam Lanza, his mother said Sunday, several times in the head his rampage at the school, he is still hundreds of ammunition have left, rounds if he has killed. Gov. Mohammed p. Malloy Connecticut said that Mr. Lanza even shot, such as the police, close were out suggests that he may have intended to take more lives, he had not been interrupted.
The president's trip here came amid increasing pressure on greater regulation of guns in America to urge. The President offered no specific suggestions there were no urgent meeting in the White House over the weekend draft of government official cautioned against quick, dramatic action, especially given the financial crisis at the end of the year consume most of the time the Mr. Obama expected.But the Administration has the makings of a plan on the shelf, with action by the Justice Department over the years but never. Among other things, Democrats said, they push would an attack gun ban, which renew expired in 2004 and try to like by Mr. Lanza in Newtown used ban on high-capacity magazines. The President also said that with law enforcement and mental health, would working professionals as parents and educators.
The streets outside the funeral ceremony and the airwaves across the nation were filled with voices, which required legislative action. On the other hand, National Rifle Association and its most prominent supporters in the Congress were largely absent from the public debate."These events are happening more and more frequently," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the independent here, before the service began, "and I'm worried that if we take a thoughtful look at it, we are not the pain, the pain and the anger, we now to lose."
Governor Malloy said on the CBS program "face the nation", that if someone in a building can burst with "you must start clips up to 30 laps on a weapon that almost instantly that can be thrown to questions whether assault weapons should the species in the United States may be distributed."Mark Landler reported from Newtown, Conn., and Peter Baker from Washington.
