Denver: US President Barack Obama urged the nation on Wednesday to put an end to “senseless violence” across the United States and find ways to stop it.
Obama pointed out the shootings at a movie theatre in Colorado and at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in recent weeks, as well as last year’s shooting of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others in Arizona, and said concerted action was needed to stop such acts.
He said: “We’ve got to put an end to this kind of senseless violence, whether it’s in Aurora, whether it’s in Oak Creek, whether it’s in Tucson, whether it’s in cities all across America where too many lives are cut short, Reuters reported.
“As one American family, we’re going to have to come together and look at all the approaches that we can take to try to bring an end to it.”
Obama’s last trip to Colorado was to comfort the families and victims of the Colorado shooting.
The Democratic president has been careful not to take a controversial stand on gun control, a politically tricky issue, especially during an election year.
Gun ownership is a sensitive topic for many voters in states like Virginia and Ohio, which Obama hopes to win in the November 6 election against Republican Mitt Romney.
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