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Obama is determined to get new gun control legislation, including a ban on assault weapons, and because of Sandy Hook he’s got the clout to bring it about

I believe the massacre of 20 first and second graders at Sandy Hook was a game changer that will result in the passage of a new assault weapons ban. Of course, such a ban will not prevent future mass shootings. An assault weapons ban amounts to nothing more than feel-good legislation. A ban will not keep those guns out of the hands of criminals, gangbangers and psychos. But it will keep law abiding citizens from obtaining them.

Here is what Obama told David Gregory Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press:

“I'm going to be putting forward a package and I'm going to be putting my full weight behind it. I'm going to be making an argument to the American people about why this is important and why we have to do everything we can to make sure that something like what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary does not happen again.

I've been very clear that an assault rifle ban, banning these high capacity clips, background checks, that there are a set of issues that I have historically supported and will continue to support.

I'd like to get it done in the first year. I will put forward a very specific proposal based on the recommendations that Joe Biden's task force is putting together as we speak. And so this is not something that I will be putting off.

I am not going to prejudge the recommendations that are given to me. I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools. And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem.

The question then becomes whether we are actually shook up enough by what happened here 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. It certainly won't feel like that to me. This is something that - you know, that was the worst day of my presidency. And it's not something that I want to see repeated.

I think there are a vast majority of responsible gun owners out there 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.”