Friends --
Earlier this week, I announced a series of executive actions to address one big piece of unfinished business -- our country's epidemic of gun violence.
I'll be talking about these actions and other steps we can take to reduce gun violence at a town hall meeting at 8:00 p.m. ET tonight on CNN, and I want you to tune in.
Last month, we remembered the third anniversary of Newtown. Tomorrow, I'll be thinking about my friend Gabby Giffords, five years into her recovery from the shooting in Tucson. And in the three years since the gun lobby mobilized and blocked a bipartisan, commonsense background check bill, tens of thousands of our fellow Americans have been mowed down by gun violence.
All across America, survivors of gun violence and those who lost a child, parent, or spouse to gun violence are forced to mark such awful anniversaries every single day. And for too long, after each of these tragedies, we've been told that reforms like background checks might not have stopped the last massacre, or the one before that -- so we shouldn't do anything.
But with these actions -- which will keep guns out of the wrong hands by strengthening background checks, make our communities safer from gun violence, and invest in mental health treatment -- we are saying that enough is enough.
We know that we can't stop every violent act. But with commonsense solutions like this one, we can protect our kids from gun violence.
Tonight's town hall is just the start of an important conversation as we move forward towards ending this epidemic once and for all. I hope you'll be watching tonight -- if you are, let me know right now:
http://my.democrats.org/Town-Hall [Be Sure To - REGISTER YOUR NAME]
Thank you,
Barack Obama
Posted By: agnes levine
Thursday, January 7th 2016 at 11:16AM
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