Obama makes a pledge to control military guns

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December 18, 2012 - 12:00 AM

Gripped by anger and tears, President Barack Obama reacted to Friday’s massacre of 20 innocent children and six adults at Newtown, Conn. with a pledge to put an end to senseless mass killings.
“We cannot tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them we must change. We cannot accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year is somehow the…

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