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01-18-2013, 03:57 AM
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the Newtown, Conn., massacre "affected the public psyche" and "the time has come" for action on gun violence.
Addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, Biden -- who led the White House task force that developed the Obama administration's proposals for addressing gun violence -- said the nation has "an obligation to respond intelligently" to the deaths of 20 students and six adult staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"Newtown ... affected the public psyche in a way I've never seen before," Biden said.
He said gun violence has become routine in U.S. society to the extent that it is "defining deviancy down," The Hill reported.
"We can't wait any longer to take action," Biden said. "The time has come."
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, told the gathering in Washington Thursday the Sandy Hook massacre is having an effect on the debate unlike that following other massacres, including those at Columbine and Aurora, Colo., Virginia Tech and Tucson.
"A tragedy in Newtown that even after all the others we still cannot imagine ... a terrible unforgivable moment in American history," Nutter said. "We cannot get those lives back ... we can and we must act to help protect the lives of those in the future.
"This has nothing to do with taking guns away from those who lawfully own them," he said. "We respect the Second Amendment ... but the right to own a firearm should not interfere with my right to live."
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will try to kill parts of President Barack Obama's executive actions to curb gun violence, suggesting the president has a "king complex."
Rand said on Fox News Wednesday he will seek to nullify any of Obama's executive actions announced Wednesday "that smacks of legislation."
"I'm very concerned about this president," Paul said of Obama before discussing executive actions taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his tenure in the White House.
Roosevelt served three full terms and died in office during his fourth.
"FDR had a little bit of this 'king complex' also," Paul said. "We had to limit FDR finally because he served so many terms that I think he would have ruled in perpetuity, and I'm very concerned about this president garnering so much power and arrogance that he thinks he can do whatever he wants."
A summary provided by Paul's office said his initiatives would try to nullify any executive actions that could be construed as breaching the Second Amendment, Roll Call reported. Paul said he wants to ensure he or others have legal standing to challenge the executive actions in the federal court system.
Paul's efforts would try to block funding to implement executive orders on gun control or related to restrictions on the Second Amendment, Roll Call said.
Paul said he thought his proposals concerning executive action had little chance of moving in the Senate, but he believes he has more opportunity to block gun-control legislation from advancing in the Senate.
"I think there are a few Democrats that will worry about going home to West Virginia or other states like that and voting for a ban on guns," he said.
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the Newtown, Conn., massacre "affected the public psyche" and "the time has come" for action on gun violence.
Addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, Biden -- who led the White House task force that developed the Obama administration's proposals for addressing gun violence -- said the nation has "an obligation to respond intelligently" to the deaths of 20 students and six adult staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"Newtown ... affected the public psyche in a way I've never seen before," Biden said.
He said gun violence has become routine in U.S. society to the extent that it is "defining deviancy down," The Hill reported.
"We can't wait any longer to take action," Biden said. "The time has come."
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, told the gathering in Washington Thursday the Sandy Hook massacre is having an effect on the debate unlike that following other massacres, including those at Columbine and Aurora, Colo., Virginia Tech and Tucson.
"A tragedy in Newtown that even after all the others we still cannot imagine ... a terrible unforgivable moment in American history," Nutter said. "We cannot get those lives back ... we can and we must act to help protect the lives of those in the future.
"This has nothing to do with taking guns away from those who lawfully own them," he said. "We respect the Second Amendment ... but the right to own a firearm should not interfere with my right to live."
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will try to kill parts of President Barack Obama's executive actions to curb gun violence, suggesting the president has a "king complex."
Rand said on Fox News Wednesday he will seek to nullify any of Obama's executive actions announced Wednesday "that smacks of legislation."
"I'm very concerned about this president," Paul said of Obama before discussing executive actions taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his tenure in the White House.
Roosevelt served three full terms and died in office during his fourth.
"FDR had a little bit of this 'king complex' also," Paul said. "We had to limit FDR finally because he served so many terms that I think he would have ruled in perpetuity, and I'm very concerned about this president garnering so much power and arrogance that he thinks he can do whatever he wants."
A summary provided by Paul's office said his initiatives would try to nullify any executive actions that could be construed as breaching the Second Amendment, Roll Call reported. Paul said he wants to ensure he or others have legal standing to challenge the executive actions in the federal court system.
Paul's efforts would try to block funding to implement executive orders on gun control or related to restrictions on the Second Amendment, Roll Call said.
Paul said he thought his proposals concerning executive action had little chance of moving in the Senate, but he believes he has more opportunity to block gun-control legislation from advancing in the Senate.
"I think there are a few Democrats that will worry about going home to West Virginia or other states like that and voting for a ban on guns," he said.
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