Committed in southeast asia. Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a daytoday basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. As president obama nominates Vietnam Veterans john kerry and chuck hagel to cabinet posts, we will speak with nick turse, author of an explosive new book, kill anything that moves the real american war in vietnam. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is preparing to unveil a comprehensive plan to address gun violence that is expected to include legislation tightening background checks on potential gun buyers as well as 19 separate actions obama could take using executive power. At a News Conference monday, obama confirmed he would support proposals for new assault weapons ban. He said a Task Force Led by Vice President joe biden had presented him with a list of common sense steps to prevent shootings like the one at sandy hook and element
Demanding immediate and specific strategies to curb gun violence. And he is promising that this time washington wont just talk about it. Cbs 5 reporter grace lee on his call to action. Reporter it is a promise and says its divergence for this president. Before the Connecticut School shooting he was usually generally neutral about anything related to the second amendment. Today he not only called for action, he even gave a deadline for results and he wants some answers by january. We may never know all the reasons why this tragedy happened. We do know that every day since, more americans have died of gun violence. Reporter five days after the sandy hook shooting in newtown, president obama says our country needs more than gun control. We need a solution to stop the violence. Thats why he is creating a new Interagency Task force led by Vice President joe biden. This is not some washington commission. This is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for six months and
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But to help build this country. This is our first task as a society. Keeping our children safe. This is how we will be judged. And their voices should compel us to change. And thats why last month i asked joe to lead an effort along with members of my cabinet to come up with some concrete steps we can take right now to keep our children safe. To help prevent mass shootings. To reduce the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country. And we cant put this off any longer. Just last thursday, as tv networks were covering one of joes meetings, on this topic, news broke of another school shooting, this one in california. In the month since 20 precious children and 6 brave adults were violently taken from us at sandy hook elementary, more than 900 of our fellow americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun. 900. In the past month. And every day we wait, that number will keep growing. So im putting forward a specific set of proposals based on the work of joes task force. And in the da
Address the guncontrol issue, sidestepping congressional approval. 2025853882 for all others. You can post your comments on facebook or send us a tweet. Or send us an email. President obama later this morning will be outlining the recommendations put forth by Vice President joe biden. Part of them will be some executive action. This is from our website, c span. Org. The president may also announced several executive orders which will take effect immediately to curb the violence. So, the assault weapons ban and those sorts of things need congressional approval. President obama will take some sort of executive action and we will talk about that later this morning. 11 45 a. M. Eastern time as when we expect the president. Look for our coverage. On coverage on the executive orders, do you support that idea by the president to do action on his own . We want to hear from you this morning. Here is the arizona republic, courtesy of the newseum in washington. Do you support executive action on