The gun debate one year after Newtown

The first anniversary of the school shootings in Newtown reignited the debate over gun control, as another school shooting occurred in Colorado.

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The first anniversary of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., reignited the debate over gun control this week, as another school shooting, in Colorado, ended with one student severely injured and only the gunman killed. The small Connecticut town where Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first-graders and six adults in Sandy Hook Elementary School observed the anniversary largely in private, after town leaders asked the media to stay away. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama lit candles in the White House and honored the dead with a moment of silence. The president addressed gun safety in his weekly address to the nation, saying Congress had failed to legislate a solution. “We haven’t yet done enough to make our communities and our country safer,” he said. “We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily.”

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