This has become one of our most polarized partisan debates. Despite the fact that there's a general consensus in America about what needs to be done. That's part of the reason why on Thursday I'm going to hold a town hall meeting in Virginia on gun violence because my goal here is to bring good people on both sides of the issue here for an open discussion.
Obama discusses the polarized nature of the gun violence debate and his intention to hold a town hall meeting to foster open discussion.
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it was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.
At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.
It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.
In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.
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