President unveils his plans to fight gun violence

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President Obama says society's first obligation is to protect its children.

Today the president revealed what he wants to do to fight gun violence in general and school shootings in particular.

It is a combination of legislation in congress and executive orders and actions.

That do not go through congress chief White House correspondent Ed Henry has the specifics had.

Jurisdiction repeatedly invoking the children killed in new -- twenty beautiful first graders gunned down President Obama and Vice President Biden unveiled the most sweeping gun control in American history with four kids who had written the president seeking reform.

And the parents of grace MacDonald murdered in Connecticut.

I think about how when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us.

We must act now.

Progress Republicans quickly denounced kids being brought in to sell it.

The use of these children.

In the audience as he was making the announcements on gun control I find particularly inappropriate.

The president did an end run around congress with 23 executive actions.

Including ordering the Centers for Disease Control to study gun violence he urged congress to pass legislation to institute universal background checks a new ban on military style assault weapons and -- ten round limit on magazine clips.

There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists.

Publicly warning -- to -- too radical all out assault on liberty.

Now because that's true.

But because.

They want to gin up fear the national.

All rifle association whose membership has grown by a quarter million since -- released an ad dragging the president's daughters into the debate in one instance.

About putting an armed security news when these kids are protected by armed guards and -- school.

White House spokesman Jay Carney denounced it saying quote most Americans agree that -- president's children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

Although the president was willing to bring other kids in.

-- on the letter that.

Julia wrote me she said.

I know that laws have to be passed by congress.

But I beg you to try very or.

Julie I will try very hard.

Especially hard for Democrats who still remember the beating they took in the 1994 mid terms after then President Clinton -- gun control.

Now thousands are lining up at gun shows from Ohio to California and Nevada.

The home state of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid who today called the president's plan thoughtful but did not commit to acting on it.

That's speaker John Boehner also signaled today he has little appetite for new legislation his spokesman putting out a tepid statement saying only they'll review what they called recommendations.

From the president -- -- mr.

Obama has a major showdown.

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