Ban assault weapons? What's the rush?

Slow-walking the gun issue

By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Monday, December 17, 5:40 PM

President Obama says we will change our approach to gun violence — some other day.

Near the site of the massacre in Newtown, Conn., Obama said on Sunday night that he will take action “in the coming weeks” to prevent future carnage — a sentiment White House press secretary

Jay Carney echoed no fewer than 16 times in his Monday afternoon briefing.

Will Obama push for more gun-control laws?

“I would simply point you to what the president said last night about moving forward in coming weeks,” the spokesman said.

Will he join the effort to reinstate the assault-weapons ban?

“You’ll hear from him, I think, as he said last night, in the coming weeks, to speak more specifically about what he thinks we can do.”

Will he perhaps make it a focus of his second inaugural address?

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