Washington: The power of Barack Obama's rhetoric on the scourge of gun violence on Tuesday was matched only by the timidity of his actual announcements - and further by the mindless reactive response it provoked among his Republican opponents. Speaking before an audience that included shooting survivors and families of the dead in the White House's East Room, the President wept as he spoke of the 20 first-grade children murdered in Sandy Hook in 2012. "Every time I think about those kids, it makes me mad," he said at one point, wiping away tears. Anyone who saw him struggle to maintain his composure as he named each of those children during a vigil days after that shooting –...
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