Obama to meet attorney general to discuss curbing US gun violence
US President Barack Obama says he will meet with US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who heads the Justice Department, to discuss ways of reducing gun violence in the United States.
Obama, in his weekly radio address on Friday, said he would meet Lynch on Monday amid reports he intends to take executive action on curbing gun-related deaths and injuries.
"A few months ago, I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence," Obama said in the address. "And on Monday, I'll meet with our attorney general, Loretta Lynch, to discuss our options."
"Too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing," he added.
Obama has vowed to use "whatever power this office holds" to put limits on gun sales through executive action, which does not require congressional approval.
The Republican-controlled Congress has snubbed previous efforts of the Obama administration to tighten gun laws.
The majority of Americans say the most important events of 2015 were the mass shootings in the United States, including the attack in San Bernardino, California, according to an Associated Press-Times Square Alliance poll.
On December 2, in the deadliest mass shooting in the US in three years, 14 people were killed and 22 others were injured when two extremists attacked a center for people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), firearms are the cause of death for more than 33,000 people in the United States every year, a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides.
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