“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.”
— PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA in a public address calling for increased background checks at gun shows and other measures to prevent gun violence
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“An armed people are a free people. If our forefathers were not armed before the American Revolution we would all be speaking English today..”
— Americans for Tax Reform President GROVER NORQUIST in a Twitter commentary of President Barack Obama’s executive order to strengthen gun control measures