Policy

Obama Wants "Meaningful Action" To Prevent School Massacres

No, we don't think he knows what this means, either

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With Washington stalemated on the "fiscal cliff", the weekly addresses from President Obama and the Republican Party were expected to focus on that fight—until the unexpected happened Friday at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

Instead, the president used his address this week to echo the remarks he made after the shooting, saying "we have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this. Regardless of the politics."