Timing's right for Obama's gun control case
Photo credit: Getty Images | U.S. President Barack Obama announces his administration's new gun law proposals in the Eisenhower Executive Office building January 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. The president unveiled a package of gun control proposals that include universal background checks and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. (Jan. 17, 2013)
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President Barack Obama has carefully reframed the decades-old, us-versus-them debate over gun control by rebranding it as an effort to curb gun violence.
As Obama made clear Wednesday, the problem isn't law-abiding gun owners, and never has been.
The issue was how best to craft a reasonable national response to gun violence that, as Obama noted, has killed 900 Americans in the month...
