Citing the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, President Obama threw down the gun control gauntlet Sunday in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press. At the end of the 4-minute portion of the interview that focused on gun violence, Obama gives a frank assessment of the political struggle ahead over new laws and other measures to stanch the bloodshed: "(Are we) 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. ... That was the worst day of my presidency, and it's not something I want to see repeated."
For more insight on the politics of gun control in Washington, check out Meet the Press host David Gregory's smirk as he presses Obama about the difficulty of getting gun control laws through Congress. It's also interesting to note the dislike-to-like ratio on this YouTube clip of the Obama interview is running about 18-1.
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