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Obama’s support for gun control has roots in Chicago

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President Barack Obama speaks at Hyde Park Academy on Friday in Chicago. Obama is traveling to promote the economic and educational plan he laid out in his State of the Union address.

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President Barack Obama’s support for gun control has its roots in a hometown plagued by deadly shootings — a city, he said Friday, where as many children die from guns every four months as were slaughtered at Sandy Hook school in Connecticut. Obama told a Chicago audience that high-profile mass shootings are one part of a national tragedy created not just by guns but by communities where there is too little hope. As a result, he said, “too many of our children are being taking away from us.”

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