NBC Touts: Obama Is ‘Not Coming for Your Guns’

GUTHRIE: "Meantime, President Obama took on the hot-button issue of gun control again last night. The town hall meeting on CNN came just days after he unveiled executive actions to help combat gun violence. The President emphasized that he is, quote, 'not coming for your guns.'”
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OBAMA: "I respect people who want a gun for self-protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship, but all of us can agree that it makes sense to do everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of people who would try to do others harm."
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GUTHRIE: "Also during that event, the widow of American sniper Chris Kyle confronted the President. Taya Kyle challenged him on the – excuse me – effectiveness of gun control legislation."
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KYLE: "We’re at the lowest murder rate in our country. All-time low --"
OBAMA: "Right."
KYLE: "-- of murders. We’re at an all-time high of gun ownership, right? I’m not necessarily saying that the two are correlated, but what I’m saying is that we’re at an all-time low for murder rate. That’s a big deal."
OBAMA: "If you look at where are the areas with the highest gun ownership, those are the places in some cases where the crime rate hasn’t dropped down that much and the places where there’s pretty stiff restrictions on gun ownership, in some of those places the crimes dropped real quickly. So I’m not sure that there’s a one-to-one correlation there."
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GUTHRIE: "The President acknowledged his latest executive actions will not stop all attacks, but said the goal was to make a little progress. And as a reminder, we are taking our entire show to the White House on Tuesday, the day of President Obama’s last State of the Union address. We’ll talk to him and Vice President Biden will join us live. We’re also gonna bring you some special access inside the nations most famous home."