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'American Sniper' widow confronts Barack Obama over gun control [View all]
Source: The Guardian
'American Sniper' widow confronts Barack Obama over gun control
Scott Bixby in New York
Friday 8 January 2016 16.38 GMT
The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle confronted Barack Obama during a town hall meeting about guns on Thursday, putting the president on the defensive over what may be the final major domestic policy initiative of his presidency.
In the first – and perhaps most contentious – question of the meeting broadcast live on CNN, Taya Kyle told Obama that his plans for increased gun control measures such as universal background checks would not make Americans safer from gun violence, particularly mass shootings.
“We want to think that we can make a law and people will follow it,” Kyle said. But “by the very nature of their crime, they’re not following it. By the very nature of looking at the people who hurt our loved ones here, I don’t know that any of them would have been stopped by the background check.”
Kyle, whose Navy Seal husband was shot and killed at a Texas shooting range in February 2013, suggested that the president focus instead on the plummeting national crime rate, a sign that existing laws restricting access to firearms are enough.
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Scott Bixby in New York
Friday 8 January 2016 16.38 GMT
The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle confronted Barack Obama during a town hall meeting about guns on Thursday, putting the president on the defensive over what may be the final major domestic policy initiative of his presidency.
In the first – and perhaps most contentious – question of the meeting broadcast live on CNN, Taya Kyle told Obama that his plans for increased gun control measures such as universal background checks would not make Americans safer from gun violence, particularly mass shootings.
“We want to think that we can make a law and people will follow it,” Kyle said. But “by the very nature of their crime, they’re not following it. By the very nature of looking at the people who hurt our loved ones here, I don’t know that any of them would have been stopped by the background check.”
Kyle, whose Navy Seal husband was shot and killed at a Texas shooting range in February 2013, suggested that the president focus instead on the plummeting national crime rate, a sign that existing laws restricting access to firearms are enough.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/08/american-sniper-widow-confronts-barack-obama-over-gun-control
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