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Gun Control Groups, Obama Allies Plot 2014 Payback
WASHINGTON -- Shortly after the Senate voted down every major plank of gun policy reform that had been proposed on Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama met privately with a group of people affected by gun violence in the Roosevelt Room inside the West Wing.
In attendance were former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and family members of those killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Many were seething from the scene they had just witnessed on Capitol Hill. All were saddened. The president was scheduled to walk out to the Rose Garden in minutes to address the vote, a stinging rebuke to an agenda he had forcefully pushed for the past few months. Those in attendance would join him at the podium.
Before he left, however, he made them a promise. He pledged that this would not be the last push for gun policy reform, an administration official told The Huffington Post. Down the road, during the course of his second term, the legislation would be revisited and they would pick up the fight again.
Gun control advocates woke up Thursday morning still licking their wounds over the Senate's rejection of a bill to expand background checks for gun purchases, among other reforms. But while it provided little solace, their attention had already turned to transforming a legislative defeat into a campaign cudgel. The 2014 elections may be a year and a half away, but one of the chief fault lines has now been drawn.
Gun Control Groups, Obama Allies Plot 2014 Payback
WASHINGTON -- Shortly after the Senate voted down every major plank of gun policy reform that had been proposed on Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama met privately with a group of people affected by gun violence in the Roosevelt Room inside the West Wing.
In attendance were former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and family members of those killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Many were seething from the scene they had just witnessed on Capitol Hill. All were saddened. The president was scheduled to walk out to the Rose Garden in minutes to address the vote, a stinging rebuke to an agenda he had forcefully pushed for the past few months. Those in attendance would join him at the podium.
Before he left, however, he made them a promise. He pledged that this would not be the last push for gun policy reform, an administration official told The Huffington Post. Down the road, during the course of his second term, the legislation would be revisited and they would pick up the fight again.
Gun control advocates woke up Thursday morning still licking their wounds over the Senate's rejection of a bill to expand background checks for gun purchases, among other reforms. But while it provided little solace, their attention had already turned to transforming a legislative defeat into a campaign cudgel. The 2014 elections may be a year and a half away, but one of the chief fault lines has now been drawn.
Gun Control Groups, Obama Allies Plot 2014 Payback
