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WASHINGTON – six months later was shot Rep Gabrielle Giffords, the White House is preparing to propose some new steps on gun safety, although they are likely to fall short of bold measures activists would like to see.
Jay Carney spokesman said that the new procedure would be made public "in the near future." He did not offer details, but people involved in the talks at the Department of Justice to craft new measures said they were expecting to see something different in the coming weeks. Whatever is proposed should not involve legislation or take on important issues, such as the ban on assault weapons, but may include executive action to strengthen the control system of background or other operations.
"The President directed the attorney general to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify measures of common sense that would improve American safety in full respect of the second amendment rights," Carney said Thursday. "That process is well underway at the Department of Justice, with stakeholders on all sides by working through these complex problems, and we expect to have some more specific announcements in the near future".
Against groups have been disappointed not to see any action so far from President Barack Obama, who supported the measures to control arms hard before in her career but fell largely silent on becoming President. Some activists were using the occasion for the six-month anniversary of shooting on Friday the Giffords talking.
The shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., six people and more than a dozen others, including Giffords wounded. Two months later, Obama wrote an opinion piece in the local newspaper of Giffords, Arizona Daily Star, called for the "correct and effective procedure" to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, including strengthening controls on background. So far the President has done nothing and administration officials have reported no major steps that should be expected, given the climate in Congress against gun legislation of any kind.
That is not to stop activists from pushing Obama. The mayors against illegal guns, led by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, sent a letter to Obama calling him to act.
"To prevent the perfect Tucson, we need a system of complete control of background, which is what the President called in April," said the Director of the mayors, Mark Glaze. "That said, there are many steps, the President can assume its authority, without new laws, which could make a real difference."
The group included suggestions to enforce the laws of reporting that could have stopped the shooter Tucson from getting a weapon.
