{"id":649498,"date":"2013-03-28T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=ef53663169c2a94d0aae404bdd750813"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T19:45:21","slug":"president-obama-we-have-not-forgotten-what-happened-in-newtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649498","title":{"rendered":"President Obama: We Have Not Forgotten What Happened in Newtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Today, President Obama promised the American people that he had not forgotten the 20 innocent chidlren and six brave educators who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary more than 100 days ago. Standing with parents and teachers of gun violence victims, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/03\/28\/remarks-president-gun-safety\">he urged Congress to take action<\/a> that will protect other children and families from the pain and grief these families have experienced.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As I said when I visited Newtown just over three months ago, if there is a step we can take that will save just one child, just one parent, just another town from experiencing the same grief that some of the moms and dads who are here have endured, then we should be doing it,&rdquo; President Obama said. &ldquo;We have an obligation to try.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In January, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/nowisthetime\">President put forward a series of common-sense proposals<\/a> to reduce the epidemic of gun violence and keep our kids safe, and in his State of the Union address, the President called on Congress to give these proposals a vote.&nbsp; &ldquo;And in just a couple of weeks, they will,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the coming weeks, members of Congress will vote on whether we should require universal background checks for anyone who wants to buy a gun so that criminals or people with severe mental illnesses can&rsquo;t get their hands on one.&nbsp; They&rsquo;ll vote on tough new penalties for anyone who buys guns only to turn around and sell them to criminals.&nbsp; They&rsquo;ll vote on a measure that would keep weapons of war and high-capacity ammunition magazines that facilitate these mass killings off our streets.&nbsp; They&rsquo;ll get to vote on legislation that would help schools become safer and help people struggling with mental health problems to get the treatment that they need.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/president-obama-now-time-turn-heartbreak-action-prevent-gun-violence\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, President Obama promised the American people that he had not forgotten the 20 innocent chidlren and six brave educators who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary more than 100 days ago. Standing with parents and teachers of gun violence victims, he urged Congress to take action that will protect other children and families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}