[net-gold] NOW IS THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE: Remarks by the President on Gun Safety
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- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:46:55 -0400 (EDT)
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NOW IS THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE
Remarks by the President on Gun Safety
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release March 28, 2013
Remarks by the President on Gun Safety
East Room
11:58 A.M. EDT
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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you,
Katerina, for sharing your story. Reema was lucky to have you as a
teacher, and all of us are fortunate to have you here today. And Im glad
we had a chance to remember her.
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Katerina, as you just heard, lost one of her most promising students in
Virginia Tech, the shootings there that took place six years ago. And she
and dozens of other moms and dads, all victims of gun violence, have come
here today from across the country -- united not only in grief and loss,
but also in resolve, and in courage, and in a deep determination to do
whatever they can, as parents and as citizens to protect other kids and
spare other families from the awful pain that they have endured.
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As any of the families and friends who are here today can tell you, the
grief doesnt ever go away. That loss, that pain sticks with you. It
lingers on in places like Blacksburg and Tucson and Aurora. That anguish
is still fresh in Newtown. Its been barely 100 days since 20 innocent
children and six brave educators were taken from us by gun violence --
including Grace McDonnell and Lauren Rousseau and Jesse Lewis, whose
families are here today.
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That agony burns deep in the families of thousands -- thousands of
Americans who have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun over
these last 100 days -- including Hadiya Pendleton, who was killed on her
way to school less than two months ago, and whose mom is also here today.
Everything they lived for and hoped for, taken away in an instant. We
have moms on this stage whose children were killed as recently as 35 days
ago.
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I dont think any of us who are parents can hear their stories and not
think about our own daughters and our own sons and our own grandchildren.
We all feel that it is our first impulse, as parents, to do everything we
can to protect our children from harm; to make any sacrifice to keep them
safe; to do what we have to do to give them a future where they can grow
up and learn and explore, and become the amazing people theyre destined to
be.
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Thats why, in January, Joe Biden, leading a task force, came up with, and
I put forward, a series of common-sense proposals to reduce the epidemic
of gun violence and keep our kids safe. In my State of the Union address,
I called on Congress to give these proposals a vote. And in just a couple
of weeks, they will.
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Earlier this month, the Senate advanced some of the most important reforms
designed to reduce gun violence. All of them are consistent with the
Second Amendment. None of them will infringe on the rights of responsible
gun owners. What they will do is keep guns out of the hands of dangerous
people who put others at risk. And this is our best chance in more than a
decade to take common-sense steps that will save lives.
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As I said when I visited Newtown just over three months ago, if there is a
step we can take that will save just one child, just one parent, just
another town from experiencing the same grief that some of the moms and
dads who are here have endured, then we should be doing it. We have an
obligation to try.
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Now, in the coming weeks, members of Congress will vote on whether we
should require universal background checks for anyone who wants to buy a
gun so that criminals or people with severe mental illnesses cant get
their hands on one. Theyll vote on tough new penalties for anyone who
buys guns only to turn around and sell them to criminals. Theyll vote on
a measure that would keep weapons of war and high-capacity ammunition
magazines that facilitate these mass killings off our streets. Theyll get
to vote on legislation that would help schools become safer and help
people struggling with mental health problems to get the treatment that
they need.
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None of these ideas should be controversial. Why wouldnt we want to make
it more difficult for a dangerous person to get his or her hand on a gun?
Why wouldnt we want to close the loophole that allows as many as 40
percent of all gun purchases to take place without a background check?
Why wouldnt we do that?
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And if you ask most Americans outside of Washington -- including many gun
owners -- some of these ideas, they don't consider them controversial.
Right now, 90 percent of Americans -- 90 percent -- support background
checks that will keep criminals and people who have been found to be a
danger to themselves or others from buying a gun. More than 80 percent of
Republicans agree. More than 80 percent of gun owners agree. Think about
that. How often do 90 percent of Americans agree on anything?
(Laughter.) It never happens.
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Many other reforms are supported by clear majorities of Americans. And I
ask every American to find out where your member of Congress stands on
these ideas. If they're not part of that 90 percent who agree that we
should make it harder for a criminal or somebody with a severe mental
illness to buy a gun, then you should ask them, why not? Why are you part
of the 10 percent?
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Theres absolutely no reason why we cant get this done. But the reason
we're talking about here today is because it's not done until its done.
And there are some powerful voices on the other side that are interested
in running out the clock or changing the subject or drowning out the
majority of the American people to prevent any of these reforms from
happening at all. Theyre doing everything they can to make all our
progress collapse under the weight of fear and frustration, or their
assumption is that people will just forget about it.
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I read an article in the news just the other day wondering is Washington
-- has Washington missed its opportunity, because as time goes on after
Newtown, somehow people start moving on and forgetting. Let me tell you,
the people here, they don't forget. Grace's dad is not forgetting.
Hadiya's mom hasn't forgotten. The notion that two months or three months
after something as horrific as what happened in Newtown happens and we've
moved on to other things, that's not who we are. That's not who we are.
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And I want to make sure every American is listening today. Less than 100
days ago that happened, and the entire country was shocked. And the
entire country pledged we would do something about it and that this time
would be different. Shame on us if we've forgotten. I haven't forgotten
those kids. Shame on us if we've forgotten.
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If there's one thing Ive said consistently since I first ran for this
office: Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for
change. And thats why its so important that all these moms and dads are
here today. But that's also why its important that we've got grassroots
groups out there that got started and are out there mobilizing and
organizing and keeping up the fight. That's what its going to take to
make this country safer. Its going to take moms and dads, and hunters and
sportsmen, and clergy and local officials like the mayors who are here
today standing up and saying, this time really is different -- that were
not just going to sit back and wait until the next Newtown or the next
Blacksburg or the next innocent, beautiful child who is gunned down in a
playground in Chicago or Philadelphia or Los Angeles before we summon the
will to act.
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Right now, members of Congress are back home in their districts, and many
of them are holding events where they can hear from their constituents.
So I want everybody who is listening to make yourself heard right now.
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If you think that checking someones criminal record before he can check
out a gun show is common sense, you've got to make yourself heard. If
youre a responsible, law-abiding gun owner who wants to keep
irresponsible, law-breaking individuals from abusing the right to bear
arms by inflicting harm on a massive scale, speak up. We need your voices
in this debate. If youre a mom like Katerina who wants to make this
country safer, a stronger place for our children to learn and grow up, get
together with other moms like the ones here today and raise your voices
and make yourselves unmistakably heard.
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We need everybody to remember how we felt 100 days ago and make sure that
what we said at that time wasn't just a bunch of platitudes -- that we
meant it.
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The desire to make a difference is what brought Corey Thornblad here
today. Corey grew up in Oklahoma, where her dad sold firearms at gun
shows. And today, shes a mom and a teacher. And Corey said that after
Newtown, she cried for days -- for the students who could have been her
students; for the parents she could have known; for the teachers like her
who go to work every single day and love their kids and want them to
succeed. And Corey says, My heart was broken. And I decided now was the
time to act, to march, the time to petition, the time to make phone calls,
because tears were no longer enough. And thats my attitude.
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Tears aren't enough. Expressions of sympathy aren't enough. Speeches
aren't enough. We've cried enough. We've known enough heartbreak. What
we're proposing is not radical, it's not taking away anybody's gun rights.
It's something that if we are serious, we will do.
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Now is the time to turn that heartbreak into something real. It won't
solve every problem. There will still be gun deaths. There will still be
tragedies. There will still be violence. There will still be evil. But
we can make a difference if not just the activists here on this stage but
the general public -- including responsible gun owners -- say, you know
what, we can do better than this. We can do better to make sure that
fewer parents have to endure the pain of losing a child to an act of
violence.
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Thats what this is about. And if enough people like Katerina and Corey
and the rest of the parents who are here today get involved, and if enough
members of Congress take a stand for cooperation and common sense, and
lead, and dont get squishy because time has passed and maybe its not on
the news every single day -- if thats who we are, if thats our character
that were willing to follow through on commitments that we say are
important -- commitments to each other and to our kids -- then Im
confident we can make this country a safer place for all of them.
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So thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America.
(Applause.)
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END
12:13 P.M. EDT
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Temple University
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