Obama: Parents of shooting victims ‘deserve vote’ on gun proposals
(MCT) — WASHINGTON — As Hadiya Pendleton’s parents sat next to the first lady and listened, President Barack Obama told the nation Tuesday that his gun proposals deserve a vote in Congress because of victims such as the slain Chicago teen.
Delivering his State of the Union address, Obama said that in the two months since the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., “more than 1,000 birthdays, graduations and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun.”
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