School shooting was worst day as president: Obama

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said in an interview on Sunday that the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school which killed 20 children and six adults was "the worst day of my presidency".

Obama also expressed scepticism about a proposal by the gun lobby group 'The National Rifle Association' to introduce armed guards in every US school. "I am sceptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools," he said.

"The question ... becomes whether we are actually shook up enough by what happened that it does not just become another one of these routine episodes where it gets a lot of attention for a couple of weeks and then it drifts away," Obama said. "It certainly won't feel like that to me," Obama said. "This is something that was the worst day of my presidency. And it's not something that I want to see repeated."

He also pledged to put his "full weight" behind a legislative package next year aimed at containing gun violence . In his boldest terms yet, he vowed to rally the American people around an agenda to limit gun violence.

"It's not enough for us to say, 'This is too hard so we're not going to try'," he said. "I'll call all the stakeholders together . I'll meet with Republicans . I'll meet with Democrats . I'll talk to anybody.

"I think there are a vast majority of responsible gun owners who recognize that we can't have a situation in which somebody with severe psychological problems is able to get the kind of high capacity weapons that this individual in Newtown obtained and gun down our kids. And, it's going to be hard."

Source: http://timesofindia.feedsportal.com/fy/8at2EtZ0iM4Vr3o9/story01.htm

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