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Titolo: Obama calls for gun control deal in wake of Colorado cinema shootings

Il (moderatissimo) buon senso di Obama contro il relitto secentesco del 
"popolo in armi": "We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that 
passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are 
part of a cherished national heritage. But I also believe that a lot of 
gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not 
in the hands of criminals".
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/26/obama-gun-control-deal-aurora
 
 
Obama calls for gun control deal in wake of Colorado cinema shootings
US president takes election risk, saying parties should co-operate and 
assault weapons 'do not belong on our streets'
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Barack Obama has broken the silence he has maintained on gun control 
since the Colorado shootings, making a plea for Democrats, Republicans 
and community leaders to "arrive at a consensus" on how to reduce gun 
violence across the United States.
 
At the end of a trip lasting several days that began in Aurora, 
Colorado, where he met with families and victims of the massacre in a 
cinema, the US president told an audience that such tragedies were 
replayed on a smaller scale in cities throughout the country on a daily 
basis.
 
"Every day and a half the number of young people we lose to violence is 
about the same as the number of people we lost in that movie theater," 
Obama said in remarks at the National Urban League Conference in New 
Orleans.
 
"I'm going to continue to work with members of both parties and with 
religious groups and with civic organisations to arrive at a consensus 
around violence reduction."
 
Discussing or even touching on the issue of gun control in the US during 
an election year is risky, and Obama has been careful to avoid making 
sweeping proposals that could offend gun owners and rally his Republican 
opponents.
 
The president made a point of emphasising his support for the US 
constitution's second amendment, which outlines the right to bear arms.
 
"We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from 
generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a 
cherished national heritage," Obama said.
 
"But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s 
belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals. That 
they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities."
 
Obama did not make any new proposals on gun control in his remarks, 
though he said background checks for people seeking to buy firearms were 
more thorough since he took office.
 
Mitt Romney, Obama's Republican opponent in the 6 November election, has 
said additional laws would not have stopped the massacre in Colorado. 
The former governor of Massachusetts has backed gun control measures in 
the past.
 
Obama noted that the political appetite to tackle the issue was low. 
"Too often those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and 
eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere," he said.
 
"Other steps to reduce violence have been met with opposition in 
Congress. This has been true for some time, particularly when it touches 
on the issue of guns."
 
Twelve people were killed and 58 wounded when a gunman opened fire at a 
screening of the latest Batman movie in the Denver suburb of Aurora.
 
The assassination attempt on then-congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 
January 2011, in which six people were killed and 14 wounded, also 
sparked a debate over how to reduce violence.
 
Obama has little political incentive to take on the issue of guns more 
directly. He is trying to shore up support among white working-class men 
in political battleground states such as Virginia, where a robust 
message on gun control would not be likely to help him politically.
 
His message was well received by the mostly black audience in New 
Orleans, however, and Obama's visit was meant to court that group ahead 
of the election.
 
The National Urban League released a report recently that said although 
black people voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008, if that vote 
dropped even five percentage points this year it could tip the outcome 
in some vital states.
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Namib
 
Necessaria sunt immutabilia (A. G. Baumgarten)

 in the hands of criminals".
 
Ma pensa invece se all'improvviso, una bella mattina, il prato della tua 
scuola si riempie di parà sovietici. E sei senza fucile d'assalto.
Oppure, se lo fossi, i parà possono andare all'armeria e farsi dare la 
lista dei possessori di fucili d'assalto per stroncare sul nascere la 
resistenza..
 
 
 
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 scuola si riempie di parà sovietici. E sei senza fucile d'assalto.
 
Me lo prestano loro.
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