{"id":1074,"date":"2016-01-06T01:27:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/obama-takes-executive-action-on-guns-citing-fierce-urgency-of-now\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T01:27:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T17:27:44","slug":"obama-takes-executive-action-on-guns-citing-fierce-urgency-of-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/obama-takes-executive-action-on-guns-citing-fierce-urgency-of-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama takes executive action on guns, citing 'fierce urgency of now'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Barack Obama vowed that he would “politicize” the issue of gun violence after a mass shooting at a community college last year.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, he did just that, announcing a series of executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence, an issue that the president has been determined to address throughout his presidency<\/p>\n

“We need to feel the fierce urgency of now because people are dying,” Obama said in the White House, invoking the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr<\/p>\n

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See also: Stronger gun laws correlate with less gun violence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Obama invokes “the fierce urgency of now” \u2014 an MLK Jr. line \u2014 about need to curb mass shootings + gun violence<\/p>\n

\u2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) January 5, 2016<\/a> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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