President Barack Obama says powerful foes of common sense gun safety proposals hope Americans will forget the shock of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. People shouldn't get "squishy" because time has passed, Obama said. "Shame on us if we've forgotten."
President Barack Obama on Thursday sternly rebuked opponents of pending gun control measures, accusing them of “running out the clock” and hoping that the nation forgets last year’s Newtown school shooting in order to keep popular reforms from passing into law.
“The entire country was shocked, and the entire country pledged we would do something about it and that that this time would be different,” the president said of the gun massacre that killed 20 children and six adults. “Shame on us if we’ve forgotten.”
Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and a group of mothers who have lost their children to gun violence, Obama accused gun rights groups of rooting for amnesia.
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