JOE BIDEN: GETTING THE FACTS STRAIGHT FOR GUN CONTROL AND PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN

Today President Obama announced a plan to help protect our kids and communities from gun violence. You're going to hear a lot about it, but I wanted to make sure you got a chance to get the facts, straight from me.After hearing from Americans from across the political spectrum, we decided to focus on some key priorities:  closing background check loopholes,  banning military-style assault weapons,  making our schools safer,  and increasing access to mental health services. The ideas we sent to President Obama are straightforward. Each of them honors the rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans to bear arms. Some of them will require action from Congress; the President is acting on others immediately. But they're all commonsense and will help make us a little safer. Now is the time for all of us to act. Read about the events that brought us to this point, learn about the plan we've proposed to help protect our kids, and then add your name in support to help build momentum for this plan. Here's what we've put together: We're calling for requiring background checks for all gun sales and closing the loopholes that allow dangerous individuals to make their purchase without going through one of these checks. We're asking for a new, stronger ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that allow a shooter to fire dozens of bullets as quickly as he can pull a trigger. And we're asking Congress to help protect law enforcement by make it illegal for members of the public to possess armor-piercing bullets. We're going to give law enforcement more tools and resources to prevent and prosecute gun crimes, and we're going to end the freeze on gun violence research that prevents the Center from Disease Control from looking at the causes of gun violence. We're calling on Congress to help make schools safer by putting up to 1,000 school resource officers and mental health professionals in schools and ensuring they have comprehensive emergency management plans in place. And we're going to increase coverage so that students and young adults can get access to the mental health treatment they may need. We know that no policy we enact or law we enforce can prevent every senseless act of violence in our country. But if we can save the life of even one child, we have a deep responsibility to act. Now is the time to come together to protect our kids. Learn about the plan, then add your name alongside mine: http://www.whitehouse.gov/now-is-the-time READ MORE  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/obama-gun-control-proposals_n_2486919.html

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN PRESENTS GUN CONTROL PACKAGE TO OBAMA

(...) The Biden recommendations are likely to include proposed laws that Congress must approve and executive actions that Obama can take himself.

Obama assigned Biden this task after the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

"You know," Biden said last week, "there's 10,000 people a year gunned down in our cities, different motives, different reasons, different explanations. But, you know, it's a real problem. It's serious."

Biden said, "I'm going to be submitting to the president a proposal as to how to proceed. I'm shooting for Tuesday. I hope I get it done by then."

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/01/13/obama-biden-gun-control-newtown/1829983/

A HEARTBREAKING MOTHER'S FAREWELL TO HER MURDERED NEWTOWN SON

If you're not already choked up by the horror of the Connecticut elementary school killing rampage, this will really get you.

At the service for her six-year-old son Noah Pozner, Veronique Pozner said:

"I will miss your perpetual smile, the twinkle in your dark blue eyes, framed by eyelashes that would be the envy of any lady in this room.

"Most of all, I will miss your visions of your future.

"You wanted to be a doctor, a soldier, a taco factory manager.

"It was your favorite food, and no doubt you wanted to ensure that the world kept producing tacos.

"Momma loves you, little man."

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2012/12/veronique_pozne.php#more

NO MORE TEARS FOR VICTIMS. LAW FOR GUN CONTROL NOW. ONE GUN PER PERSON IS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR SELF-PROTECTION.

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- Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male
- Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female.
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- Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female
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- Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06, male
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- Grace McDonnell, 12/04/05, female
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- Jack Pinto, 5/06/06, male
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