The killing of 20 children reopens debate on U.S. Weapons

The thirty people mostly children  shot down during a shooting at a school in Connecticut this Friday ? push Washington to legislate on gun ownership? After aparticularly bloody year, the debate is reactivated. The state of  Connecticut , where the massacre took place,  does not require any sort of official permission  to possess rifles or pistols and  only requires that the holder is older than 21 years. Furthermore,  state laws do not ask for special permission  to buy  rifles or shotguns, but  another to buy guns,  and as in many other U.S. states,  the state does not exist in a complete record of the weapons are civilians . For all this,  the United States is the country with the most civilian gun ownership in the world , with between  270 and 300 million in private hands , according to the United Nations, a number that the National Rifle Association raised more than 300 million. The White House declined to take a position  on the issue of reform of the lawsgoverning the sale of firearms , after the  school shooting in Newtown. "I do not think today is the day" to discuss politics , government spokesman, Jay Carney, when asked about the issue . However, Rep. Jerrold Nadler responded immediately through your account of Twitter : "If this is not the time to have a serious discussion about gun control, I do not know when to arrive". "(The issue) is still on an unstable person who had access to firearms andcommitted a horrible crime against innocent children , "he said. "I call on President Barack Obama, the Congress and the American people to act beyond the shock and finally do something, "said Nadler. The Obama spokesman said the president's position is to ensure that those who are not authorized to bear arms shall not have access to them , while ensuring the rest of Americans the right to bear arms contained in the Constitution , in the famousSecond Amendment, the gun lobby has defended tooth and nail. Without concealing his weariness and anger, the U.S. media immediately reactivated the debate on gun ownership , just as they did when 12 people were killed during a shooting at a Colorado theater  and this week after a shooting at a downtown Oregon commercial,  which caused three deaths. "This is not a day for politics," said Susan Page, bureau chief of Washington 's major newspaper USA Today. But " this is the point of no return? I do not know , "he asked. However, defenders of the Second Amendment of the Constitution  asserts: " Being A well regulated militia necessary to the security of a free State , the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed . " They insist that the solution is not on the side of the restriction of the sale of semiautomatic weapons. The sale of automatic weapons on the other hand, remains prohibited. "We reject the misuse of firearms," ​​he told AFP Alan Gottlieb , founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (ESF). Barack Obama has argued that the opposition of Republicans in Congress makes impossible any reform of federal laws on arms trade, especially the ban on assault weapons that was passed in the 1990s under the leadership of Democrat Bill Clinton , but that expired in 2004 during the administration of Republican George W. Bush. A 73% of Americans showed in late 2011, against banning the possession of firearms in the country to citizens who are not members of the police or have special authorization, according to a survey by Gallup. The survey also highlighted that 26% favor banning gun possession marked a record low in 2011 , since twenty years ago the favorable opinion the ban was 41 percent.

Obama: "We've been through this too many times"

"I did not react as president, but as a father." That opened the press conference U.S. President Barack Obama,  following the killing of Connecticut elementary school,which claimed the lives of 27 people , including 18 children. Shocked, Obama spoke of earlier episodes and said: " We've been through too many tragedies like this in recent years ." Then the U.S. president called on Americans to join , regardless of political differences. "Our hearts are torn . Most of the dead were children between 5 and 10 years . had a past life: birthdays, graduations, weddings ." 

Referring then to the survivors , Obama assured his full support in the difficult times that are atraviesando, and later said: "We have to take significant action to prevent this from happening again ." Wiping tears from his eyes, the chairman closed the conference: " Today at the night Michelle and I will do the same thing all parents hug their children, even if they have parents who can not do ". 

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At least 27 people including about 18 children were killed in a shooting in a school of basic education in the U.S. town of Newtown, Connecticut. The man who opened fire at the institution, the father of one of the students , also died, said CBS News . The network CNN said that the principal and the school psychologist were also killed in the shootout. There are unconfirmed reports of a second assailant after witnesses heard dozens of shooting on location. The emergency call to the police occurred at 09:41 local time (14:41 GMT). Television pictures showed police and ambulances at the scene, while the families of the students came with haste to the education center. Sandy Hook School accommodates children between five and 10 years . There they found two guns, probably the attacker, told NBC News , without citing sources. Newtown, with a population of 27,000, is located about 128 kilometers northeast of New York. All schools in the town were closed after the shooting. A young woman interviewed by NBC Connecticut said he heard seven loud explosions when I was in gym class. The children began to mourn and teachers took students to neighboring offices said. "A police officer came and told us that us run out and we did," said an unidentified girl in front of the camera. President Barack Obama was informed of the tragedy and is receiving updated parts of the course of events. United States has suffered several shootings this year. The most recent was in Oregon, where on Tuesday a man killed two people in a shopping mall and then himself. The deadliest attack was in July, at the premiere of the latest Batman film in the state of Colorado, where a young man killed 12 people and wounded 58.

U.S. deploys troops and missiles on the Syrian border

The announcement was made ​​Friday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who through his press office told U.S. media that the delivery order signed during his journey from Afghanistan to Turkey. The order states that 400 soldiers should be sent to operate two batteries to be located in places not certain of the border between Turkey and Syria, through which theAssad regime has kept skirmishes with Turkish forces while fighting a civil war internal sources say NATO and the U.S. government, is poised to lose. The news agencies report that has been requested Turkey that sending the weapons. As a founding member of NATO, got the missiles are provided to you from Germany, Holland and the United States for an indeterminate period. Panetta said "(United States) can help Turkey to have the type of missile defense needed against threats coming from Syria , "referring to repeated cases of projectiles fired by the army of Al Assad falling into Turkish territory. Victoria Nuland, spokeswoman for the  Department of State  U.S., said that while no one can predict the future,  the opposition in  Syria  conquered important achievements during the last hour. "We believe that the Assad regime's days are numbered," Nuland said. And he argued that  "in his final desperation,  the regime in  Damascus  appeals to an increasingly greater violence against his own people. " Earlier, the Secretary General  Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Anders Fogh Rasmussen, had already announced an early collapse of the Syrian government. Even  Russia, a close ally of  Assad, now does not seem convinced his political survival.

A plot to kill Justin Bieber

The singer of 18 years was targeted by two men who were arrested in the states of New York and Vermont and had been instigated by a third party who was in a New Mexico prison for murder and apparently was obsessed with Bieber. Police have not made ​​statements about the possible assassination plan Bieber. A police spokeswoman confirmed in Vermont DPA in that state was arrested a man of 41 years for conspiracy to commit murder in New York and that his nephew was arrested 23 years. The official, however, did not confirm whether the alleged plan was against the teen idol."We take every precaution to protect Justin and to ensure their safety and that of their fans," media quoted a statement by the representative of Bieber without details.