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PRESIDENT OBAMA SHARES DISAPPOINTMENT IN SENATE’S VOTE AGAINST GUN CONTROL AMENDMENT |
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Following the Senate’s vote against the passing of a gun control amendment, President Barack Obama issued a very candid statement from the White House’s Rose Garden. Accompanied by the parents of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Commander-in-Cheif expressed his disappointment in the Senate’s decision to block “common-sense measures to reduce gun violence” in the United States. After hours of stonewalling and with only 54 members in favor of the change, the Senate fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to bring the gun control tactics to fruition – measures which involved conducting background checks on those purchasing the deadly weapon. 
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