Obama pledges new efforts to curb gun violence  (REUTERS/Larry
Downing)    “Every day and a half the number of young people we
lose to violence is about the same as the number of people we
lost in that movie theater,” Obama said in remarks to the
National Urban League, a group that works to promote civil
rights and economic improvement for African-Americans.
Republican Mitt Romney, Obama’s opponent in the November 6
election, said earlier this week that additional laws would not
have stopped the massacre in Colorado. The former governor of
Massachusetts has backed gun control measures in the past.
His message was well received by the mostly African-American
audience in New Orleans, however, and Obama’s visit was meant to
court that group ahead of the election, too.     (Writing by
Jeff Mason; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)  Enhanced by Zemanta
1. I’ve known since I was 14 where I could buy guns with no
background check and no serial numbers. It’s called the black
market, and it’s where most crim