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\cf3 \ul \ulc3 The White House}}\uc0\u8232 \u8232
\b BY MADISON MACK\uc0\u8232 ANCHOR CHRISTIAN BRYANT
\b0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 Vice President Joe Biden promised quick action {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://www.policymic.com/articles/22604/biden-vows-to-send-obama-recommendations-by-tuesday"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 Thursday speaking with reporters}}
before a day\'92s worth of meetings with representatives from the NRA, gun retailers, hunting associations,
and the entertainment industry.\uc0\u8232 \u8232
\b \'93\'91This doesn't mean it is the end of the discussion, but the public wants us
to act. This is a complicated issue \'85 there is no singular solution to how we deal with
mass shootings.\'94\'a0 \b0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 Biden is heading up
the president's coalition tasked with preventing gun violence in the wake of a series of mass
shootings across the United States. That task force has been meeting members from a wide
range of religious groups, educators, medical groups, the entertainment industry, gun dealers
and gun advocates to discuss gun policy. \'a0\u8232 \u8232 The topics being discussed:\
An assault weapons ban\uc0\u8232 Background checks\u8232 High capacity ammunition clips\u8232
And violence in popular culture.\u8232 \u8232 {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/10/biden-newtown-task-force-aims-big-on-guns/"}}{\fldrslt
\cf3 \ul \ulc3 TIME quotes the VP\ulnone }}\'91...\'91there has got to be some common ground, to not solve
every problem but diminish the probability.\'92\'92\uc0\u8232 \u8232 But after talks concluded with the
pro-gun NRA,{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/01/nra-disappointed-after-biden-meeting-153873.html"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul the group said the meeting}} didn\'92t
accomplish anything.\uc0\u8232 \u8232 \b "We were disappointed with how little this
meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda
to attack the Second Amendment," \b0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 The NRA says it will
now turn its focus to Congress signalling the tough opposition new gun regulations would
face there. Wednesday the White House said the president is considering enacting gun
regulations through an executive order.\u8232 \u8232 Such a move would circumvent the deeply
partisan and often gridlocked congress.\u8232 \u8232 {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2013/jan/10/should-obama-use-executive-orders-enact-gun-contro/"}}{\fldrslt
\cf3 \ul \ulc3 Washington Times columnist Joseph Cotto}} says with little hope of gun
legislation making it through Congress, the president has few other options for meaningful
action.\uc0\u8232 \u8232 \b \'93If our nation has reached the point
that an executive order is the only way of accomplishing this, then so be it. \'85 Sometimes,
leadership requires such decisive action.\'94 \b0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 But in reality there\'92s
not much the president could change with an executive order. {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/01/dont-worry-nra-obama-cant-do-big-things-guns-without-congress/60778/"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 The Atlantic Wire says}} he
certainly couldn\'92t implement any of the new legislation being discussed.\uc0\u8232
\u8232 \b \'93Perhaps the threat of executive order
resonates because Obama has used it to stop deporting young illegal immigrants and to
stop fighting for the Defense of Marriage Act in court. But stopping enforcement of
a law Congress has passed is very different from starting the enforcement of a law that
Congress hasn't passed.\'94 \b0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P7zqUwZ7yRA#!"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 And an analyst on Al Jazeera
says all}} of the current proposals are simply rehashes of old ideas and don\'92t address
the deeper problems causing gun violence.\uc0\u8232 \u8232
\b \'93The real war is American culture and this is not popular to say but Americans have
a fundamental belief that they have the right to own guns so one day they can fight their
oppressive government \'85 and that is something that needs to change in that attitude in our
gun culture.\'94 \b0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 Biden says he will deliver
his recommendations to the president by Tuesday.\u8232 \u8232 \u8232 \u8232 \u8232 \u8232 \
}